Starts asynchronous cancellation on a long-running operation. The server makes a best effort to cancel the operation, but success is not guaranteed. If the server doesn't support this method, it returns google.rpc.Code.UNIMPLEMENTED. Clients can use Operations.GetOperation or other methods to check whether the cancellation succeeded or whether the operation completed despite cancellation. On successful cancellation, the operation is not deleted; instead, it becomes an operation with an Operation.error value with a google.rpc.Status.code of 1, corresponding to Code.CANCELLED.
HTTP request
POST https://admanager.googleapis.com/v1/{name}:cancel
Path parameters
Parameters
name
string
The name of the operation resource to be cancelled.
Request body
The request body must be empty.
Response body
If successful, the response body is an empty JSON object.
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