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Lists the field configuration and metadata for this database.
Currently, FirestoreAdmin.ListFields only supports listing fields that have been explicitly overridden. To issue this query, call FirestoreAdmin.ListFields with the filter set to indexConfig.usesAncestorConfig:false.
HTTP request
GET https://firestore.googleapis.com/v1beta2/{parent=projects/*/databases/*/collectionGroups/*}/fields
A parent name of the form projects/{projectId}/databases/{databaseId}/collectionGroups/{collectionId}
Query parameters
Parameters
filter
string
The filter to apply to list results. Currently, FirestoreAdmin.ListFields only supports listing fields that have been explicitly overridden. To issue this query, call FirestoreAdmin.ListFields with the filter set to indexConfig.usesAncestorConfig:false.
pageSize
integer
The number of results to return.
pageToken
string
A page token, returned from a previous call to FirestoreAdmin.ListFields, that may be used to get the next page of results.
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