Method: projects.locations.collections.engines.assistants.streamGenerateContent

Server-streaming variant of assistants.generateContent. This is the main chat path.

Limited to Gemini Enterprise clients (ASSISTANT_USER visibility); not part of the general Discovery Engine API.

HTTP request

POST https://discoveryengine.googleapis.com/v1alpha/{name=projects/*/locations/*/collections/*/engines/*/assistants/*}:streamGenerateContent

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Path parameters

Parameters
name

string

Required. The resource name of the Assistant serving the request. Format: projects/{project}/locations/{location}/collections/{collection}/engines/{engine}/assistants/{assistant}

Request body

The request body contains data with the following structure:

JSON representation 
{
  "model": string,
  "httpBody": {
    object (HttpBody)
  }
}
Fields
model

string

Required. The model to serve the request. This is an opaque model identifier, not a Discovery Engine resource.
httpBody

object (HttpBody)

Required. The opaque request body.

Response body

If successful, the response is a generic HTTP response whose format is defined by the method.

Authorization scopes

Requires one of the following OAuth scopes:

  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/discoveryengine.assist.readwrite
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/discoveryengine.readwrite
  • https://www.googleapis.com/auth/discoveryengine.serving.readwrite

For more information, see the Authentication Overview.

IAM Permissions

Requires the following IAM permission on the name resource:

  • discoveryengine.assistants.assist

For more information, see the IAM documentation.