How to update GCP Scheduler Jobs with Python - google-cloud-platform

Question

I'm working in this project to automate updates in Cloud Scheduler Jobs with Python.
I already wrote the logic in Python but I'm facing one problem, it looks like that to update a Cloud Scheduler job with Python is similar to create a job, you have to past most of the properties of the job in the code, that is the problem, I only want to update the retry_config, nothing else. I want to leave the schedule and the target as it is, so I don't have to past those again every time.
Of course I can get the current schedule and target of the job using another class as GetJobRequest for example, that wouldn't be a problem, but I wish I didn't have to, since I don't want to update those fields.
Help?
from google.cloud import scheduler_v1
from google.protobuf import duration_pb2
client = scheduler_v1.CloudSchedulerClient()
retry_config = scheduler_v1.RetryConfig()
retry_config.retry_count = 4
retry_config.max_doublings = 4
retry_config.min_backoff_duration = duration_pb2.Duration(seconds=5)
retry_config.max_backoff_duration = duration_pb2.Duration(seconds=60)
job = scheduler_v1.Job()
job.name = f"projects/{PROJECT_ID}/locations/{DATAFLOW_REGION}/jobs/test"
job.retry_config = retry_config
job.schedule = "* * * * 1"
method = scheduler_v1.HttpMethod(2)
target = scheduler_v1.HttpTarget()
target.uri = "https://xxxx"
target.http_method = method
job.http_target = target
request = scheduler_v1.UpdateJobRequest(
job=job
)
response = client.update_job(request=request)
print(response)

Answer 1

It is possible to specify the properties that need to be changed using the update_mask parameter.
The final code will be as follows:
from google.cloud import scheduler_v1
from google.protobuf import duration_pb2, field_mask_pb2
client = scheduler_v1.CloudSchedulerClient()
retry_config = scheduler_v1.RetryConfig()
retry_config.retry_count = 4
retry_config.max_doublings = 4
retry_config.min_backoff_duration = duration_pb2.Duration(seconds=5)
retry_config.max_backoff_duration = duration_pb2.Duration(seconds=60)
job = scheduler_v1.Job()
job.name = f"projects/{PROJECT_ID}/locations/{DATAFLOW_REGION}/jobs/test"
job.retry_config = retry_config
update_mask = field_mask_pb2.FieldMask(paths=['retry_config'])
request = scheduler_v1.UpdateJobRequest(
job=job,
update_mask=update_mask
)
response = client.update_job(request=request)
print(response)