Required. The job to update.transferJobis expected to specify one or more of five fields:description,transferSpec,notificationConfig,loggingConfig, andstatus. AnUpdateTransferJobRequestthat specifies other fields are rejected with the errorINVALID_ARGUMENT. Updating a job status toDELETEDrequiresstoragetransfer.jobs.deletepermission.
The field mask of the fields intransferJobthat are to be updated in this request. Fields intransferJobthat can be updated are:description,transferSpec,notificationConfig,loggingConfig, andstatus. To update thetransferSpecof the job, a complete transfer specification must be provided. An incomplete specification missing any required fields is rejected with the errorINVALID_ARGUMENT.
This is a comma-separated list of fully qualified names of fields. Example:"user.displayName,photo".
Response body
If successful, the response body contains an instance ofTransferJob.
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