After a task is successfully executed or has exhausted its retry attempts, the task is deleted. Atasks.getrequest for a deleted task returns aNOT_FOUNDerror.
HTTP request
GET https://cloudtasks.googleapis.com/v2/{name=projects/*/locations/*/queues/*/tasks/*}
The responseView specifies which subset of theTaskwill be returned.
By default responseView isBASIC; not all information is retrieved by default because some data, such as payloads, might be desirable to return only when needed because of its large size or because of the sensitivity of data that it contains.
Authorization forFULLrequirescloudtasks.tasks.fullViewGoogle IAMpermission on theTaskresource.
Request body
The request body must be empty.
Response body
If successful, the response body contains an instance ofTask.
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