When authenticating as an app, the space.customer field must be set in the request.
Space membership upon creation depends on whether the space is created in Import mode:
Import mode: No members are created.
All other modes: The calling user is added as a member. This is:
The app itself when using app authentication.
The human user when using user authentication.
If you receive the error message ALREADY_EXISTS when creating a space, try a different displayName. An existing space within the Google Workspace organization might already use this display name.
Optional. A unique identifier for this request. A random UUID is recommended. Specifying an existing request ID returns the space created with that ID instead of creating a new space. Specifying an existing request ID from the same Chat app with a different authenticated user returns an error.
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