Method: permissions.update

• HTTP request
• Path parameters
• Query parameters
• Request body
• Response body
• Authorization scopes
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Updates a permission with patch semantics. For more information, see Share files, folders, and drives.

Warning: Concurrent permissions operations on the same file aren't supported; only the last update is applied.

HTTP request

PATCH https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files/{fileId}/permissions/{permissionId}

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Path parameters

Parameters
fileId	string The ID of the file or shared drive.
permissionId	string The ID of the permission.

Query parameters

Parameters
removeExpiration	boolean Whether to remove the expiration date.
supportsAllDrives	boolean Whether the requesting application supports both My Drives and shared drives.
supportsTeamDrives (deprecated)	boolean Deprecated: Use supportsAllDrives instead.
transferOwnership	boolean Whether to transfer ownership to the specified user and downgrade the current owner to a writer. This parameter is required as an acknowledgement of the side effect. For more information, see Transfer file ownership.
useDomainAdminAccess	boolean Issue the request as a domain administrator. If set to true, and if the following additional conditions are met, the requester is granted access: The file ID parameter refers to a shared drive. The requester is an administrator of the domain to which the shared drive belongs. For more information, see Manage shared drives as domain administrators.
enforceExpansiveAccess	boolean Whether the request should enforce expansive access rules.

Request body

The request body contains an instance of Permission.

Response body

If successful, the response body contains an instance of Permission.

Authorization scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive
• https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive.file

Some scopes are restricted and require a security assessment for your app to use them. For more information, see the Authorization guide.