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Renew an existing watch for seven days. The state of the watch after renewal is ACTIVE, and the expireTime is seven days from the renewal. Renewing a watch in an error state (e.g. SUSPENDED) succeeds if the error is no longer present, but fail otherwise. After a watch has expired, watches.renew returns NOT_FOUND.
HTTP request
POST https://forms.googleapis.com/v1beta/forms/{formId}/watches/{watchId}:renew
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