---
title: "POST /v1/{+name}:modifyEntry"
method: POST
path: "/v1/{+name}:modifyEntry"
tags: ["projects"]
---

# POST /v1/{+name}:modifyEntry

`POST /v1/{+name}:modifyEntry`

Modifies an entry using the permission on the source system.

## Path parameters

- `name` string, required

## Request body

- GoogleCloudDataplexV1ModifyEntryRequest — Modify Entry request using permissions in the source system.
  - `updateMask` string, google-fieldmask — Optional. Mask of fields to update. To update Aspects, the update_mask must contain the value "aspects".If the update_mask is empty, the service will update all modifiable fields present in the request.
  - `entry` GoogleCloudDataplexV1Entry — An entry is a representation of a data resource that can be described by various metadata.
    - `name` string — Identifier. The relative resource name of the entry, in the format projects/{project_id_or_number}/locations/{location_id}/entryGroups/{entry_group_id}/entries/{entry_id}.
    - `fullyQualifiedName` string — Optional. A name for the entry that can be referenced by an external system. For more information, see Fully qualified names (https://cloud.google.com/data-catalog/docs/fully-qualified-names). The maximum size of the field is 4000 characters.
    - `entryType` string — Required. Immutable. The relative resource name of the entry type that was used to create this entry, in the format projects/{project_id_or_number}/locations/{location_id}/entryTypes/{entry_type_id}.
    - `updateTime` string, google-datetime — Output only. The time when the entry was last updated in Dataplex Universal Catalog.
    - `createTime` string, google-datetime — Output only. The time when the entry was created in Dataplex Universal Catalog.
    - `aspects` object — Optional. The aspects that are attached to the entry. Depending on how the aspect is attached to the entry, the format of the aspect key can be one of the following: If the aspect is attached directly to the entry: {project_id_or_number}.{location_id}.{aspect_type_id} If the aspect is attached to an entry's path: {project_id_or_number}.{location_id}.{aspect_type_id}@{path}
    - `entrySource` GoogleCloudDataplexV1EntrySource — Information related to the source system of the data resource that is represented by the entry.
      - `displayName` string — A user-friendly display name. Maximum length is 500 characters.
      - `location` string — Output only. Location of the resource in the source system. You can search the entry by this location. By default, this should match the location of the entry group containing this entry. A different value allows capturing the source location for data external to Google Cloud.
      - `system` string — The name of the source system. Maximum length is 64 characters.
      - `labels` object — User-defined labels. The maximum size of keys and values is 128 characters each.
      - `resource` string — The name of the resource in the source system. Maximum length is 4,000 characters.
      - `description` string — A description of the data resource. Maximum length is 2,000 characters.
      - `ancestors` GoogleCloudDataplexV1EntrySourceAncestor[] — Immutable. The entries representing the ancestors of the data resource in the source system.
        - `name` string — Optional. The name of the ancestor resource.
        - `type` string — Optional. The type of the ancestor resource.
      - `platform` string — The platform containing the source system. Maximum length is 64 characters.
      - `updateTime` string, google-datetime — The time when the resource was last updated in the source system. If the entry exists in the system and its EntrySource has update_time populated, further updates to the EntrySource of the entry must provide incremental updates to its update_time.
      - `createTime` string, google-datetime — The time when the resource was created in the source system.
    - `parentEntry` string — Optional. Immutable. The resource name of the parent entry, in the format projects/{project_id_or_number}/locations/{location_id}/entryGroups/{entry_group_id}/entries/{entry_id}.
  - `deleteMissingAspects` boolean — Optional. If set to true, any aspects not specified in the request will be deleted. The default is false.
  - `aspectKeys` string[] — Optional. The aspect keys which the service should modify. It supports the following syntaxes: - matches an aspect of the given type and empty path. @path - matches an aspect of the given type and specified path. For example, to attach an aspect to a field that is specified by the schema aspect, the path should have the format Schema.. @* - matches aspects of the given type for all paths. *@path - matches aspects of all types on the given path.The service will not remove existing aspects matching the syntax unless delete_missing_aspects is set to true.If this field is left empty, the service treats it as specifying exactly those Aspects present in the request.

## Response `200`

Successful response

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