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Search the nearest entities under a FeatureView. Search only works for
indexable feature view; if a feature view isn't indexable, returns
Invalid argument response.
Arguments
Parameters
featureView
string
Required. FeatureView resource format projects/{project}/locations/{location}/featureOnlineStores/{featureOnlineStore}/featureViews/{featureView}
region
string
Required. Region of the HTTP endpoint. For example, if region is set to us-central1, the endpoint https://us-central1-integrations.googleapis.com will be used. See service endpoints.
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