An allowed method or permission of a service specified inApiOperation.
JSON representation
{// Union fieldkindcan be only one of the following:"method":string,"permission":string// End of list of possible types for union fieldkind.}
Fields
Union fieldkind. The API method name or Cloud IAM permission name to allow.kindcan be only one of the following:
method
string
A valid method name for the correspondingserviceNameinApiOperation. If*is used as the value for themethod, then ALL methods and permissions are allowed.
permission
string
A valid Cloud IAM permission for the correspondingserviceNameinApiOperation.
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