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:api: start-watch-service
:request: StartWatchServiceRequest
:response: StartWatchServiceResponse
--
[id="{upid}-{api}"]
=== Start watch service API

[id="{upid}-{api}-request"]
==== Execution

{ref}/watcher-api-start.html[Start watcher] enables you
to manually start the watch service. Submit the following request
to start the watch service:

["source","java",subs="attributes,callouts,macros"]
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include-tagged::{doc-tests-file}[{api}-request]
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[id="{upid}-{api}-response"]
==== Response

The returned `AcknowledgeResponse` contains a value on whether or not the request
was received:

["source","java",subs="attributes,callouts,macros"]
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include-tagged::{doc-tests-file}[{api}-response]
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<1> A boolean value of `true` if successfully received, `false` otherwise.

include::../execution.asciidoc[]