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.
useDomainAdminAccess
boolean
Issue the request as a domain administrator; if set to true, then the requester will be granted access if the file ID parameter refers to a shared drive and the requester is an administrator of the domain to which the shared drive belongs.
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.
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