An alias uniquely identifies a course. It must be unique within one of the following scopes:
domain: A domain-scoped alias is visible to all users within the alias creator's domain and can be created only by a domain admin. A domain-scoped alias is often used when a course has an identifier external to Classroom.
project: A project-scoped alias is visible to any request from an application using the Developer Console project ID that created the alias and can be created by any project. A project-scoped alias is often used when an application has alternative identifiers. A random value can also be used to avoid duplicate courses in the event of transmission failures, as retrying a request will return ALREADY_EXISTS if a previous one has succeeded.
JSON representation
{"alias": string}
Fields
alias
string
Alias string. The format of the string indicates the desired alias scoping.
d:<name> indicates a domain-scoped alias. Example: d:math_101
p:<name> indicates a project-scoped alias. Example: p:abc123
This field has a maximum length of 256 characters.
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