The returned connection object should not be used directly; instead it should be passed as an argument to the constructor ofCloudMemcacheClient.
The optionaloptionsargument may be used to configure aspects of the returnedCloudMemcacheConnection. Expected options are any of the types in the following option lists:
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\u003ccode\u003eCloudMemcacheClient\u003c/code\u003e for managing Memorystore instances and \u003ccode\u003eCloudMemcacheConnection\u003c/code\u003e for creating connections, along with several structs for configuring policies and options.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThe document details the \u003ccode\u003eMakeCloudMemcacheConnection\u003c/code\u003e function, which creates a \u003ccode\u003eCloudMemcacheConnection\u003c/code\u003e object, and outlines the various options that can be used to configure the connection.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThe documentation also includes type aliases for various retry policies, allowing for the easy configuration of retries for the Memorystore for Memcached service.\u003c/p\u003e\n"]]],[],null,["# Namespace google::cloud::memcache_v1 (2.11.0)\n\nVersion 2.11.0keyboard_arrow_down\n\n- [2.42.0-rc (latest)](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/latest/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1)\n- [2.41.0](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/2.41.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1)\n- [2.40.0](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/2.40.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1)\n- [2.39.0](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/2.39.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1)\n- [2.38.0](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/2.38.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1)\n- [2.37.0](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/2.37.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1)\n- [2.36.0](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/2.36.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1)\n- [2.35.0](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/2.35.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1)\n- [2.34.0](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/2.34.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1)\n- [2.33.0](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/2.33.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1)\n- [2.32.0](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/2.32.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1)\n- [2.31.0](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/2.31.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1)\n- [2.30.0](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/2.30.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1)\n- [2.29.0](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/2.29.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1)\n- [2.28.0](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/2.28.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1)\n- [2.27.0](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/2.27.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1)\n- [2.26.0](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/2.26.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1)\n- [2.25.1](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/2.25.1/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1)\n- [2.24.0](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/2.24.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1)\n- [2.23.0](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/2.23.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1)\n- [2.22.1](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/2.22.1/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1)\n- [2.21.0](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/2.21.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1)\n- [2.20.0](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/2.20.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1)\n- [2.19.0](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/2.19.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1)\n- [2.18.0](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/2.18.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1)\n- [2.17.0](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/2.17.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1)\n- [2.16.0](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/2.16.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1)\n- [2.15.1](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/2.15.1/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1)\n- [2.14.0](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/2.14.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1)\n- [2.13.0](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/2.13.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1)\n- [2.12.0](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/2.12.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1)\n- [2.11.0](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/2.11.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1) \n\nClasses\n-------\n\n### [CloudMemcacheClient](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/2.11.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1_1_1CloudMemcacheClient)\n\nConfigures and manages Cloud Memorystore for Memcached instances.\n\n### [CloudMemcacheConnection](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/2.11.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1_1_1CloudMemcacheConnection)\n\nThe [`CloudMemcacheConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/2.11.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1_1_1CloudMemcacheConnection) object for [`CloudMemcacheClient`](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/2.11.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1_1_1CloudMemcacheClient).\n\n### [CloudMemcacheConnectionIdempotencyPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/2.11.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1_1_1CloudMemcacheConnectionIdempotencyPolicy)\n\nStructs\n-------\n\n### [CloudMemcacheBackoffPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/2.11.0/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1_1_1CloudMemcacheBackoffPolicyOption)\n\nUse with [`google::cloud::Options`](https://cloud.google.com/cpp/docs/reference/common/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1Options.html) to configure the backoff policy.\n\n### [CloudMemcacheConnectionIdempotencyPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/2.11.0/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1_1_1CloudMemcacheConnectionIdempotencyPolicyOption)\n\nUse with [`google::cloud::Options`](https://cloud.google.com/cpp/docs/reference/common/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1Options.html) to configure which operations are retried.\n\n### [CloudMemcachePollingPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/2.11.0/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1_1_1CloudMemcachePollingPolicyOption)\n\nUse with [`google::cloud::Options`](https://cloud.google.com/cpp/docs/reference/common/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1Options.html) to configure the long-running operations polling policy.\n\n### [CloudMemcacheRetryPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/2.11.0/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1_1_1CloudMemcacheRetryPolicyOption)\n\nUse with [`google::cloud::Options`](https://cloud.google.com/cpp/docs/reference/common/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1Options.html) to configure the retry policy.\n\nFunctions\n---------\n\n### MakeCloudMemcacheConnection(Options)\n\nA factory function to construct an object of type [`CloudMemcacheConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/2.11.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1_1_1CloudMemcacheConnection). \nThe returned connection object should not be used directly; instead it should be passed as an argument to the constructor of [CloudMemcacheClient](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/2.11.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1_1_1CloudMemcacheClient).\n\nThe optional `options` argument may be used to configure aspects of the returned [`CloudMemcacheConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/2.11.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1_1_1CloudMemcacheConnection). Expected options are any of the types in the following option lists:\n\n- [`google::cloud::CommonOptionList`](https://cloud.google.com/cpp/docs/reference/common/latest/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud.html)\n- [`google::cloud::GrpcOptionList`](https://cloud.google.com/cpp/docs/reference/common/latest/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud.html)\n- [`google::cloud::UnifiedCredentialsOptionList`](https://cloud.google.com/cpp/docs/reference/common/latest/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud.html)\n- [`google::cloud::memcache_v1::CloudMemcachePolicyOptionList`](/cpp/docs/reference/memcache/2.11.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1memcache__v1)\n\n| **Note:** Unexpected options will be ignored. To log unexpected options instead, set `GOOGLE_CLOUD_CPP_ENABLE_CLOG=yes` in the environment.\n\n### MakeDefaultCloudMemcacheConnectionIdempotencyPolicy()\n\nType Aliases\n------------\n\n### CloudMemcacheRetryPolicy\n\n**Alias Of** : `::google::cloud::internal::TraitBasedRetryPolicy\u003c memcache_v1_internal::CloudMemcacheRetryTraits \u003e` \n\n### CloudMemcacheLimitedTimeRetryPolicy\n\n**Alias Of** : `::google::cloud::internal::LimitedTimeRetryPolicy\u003c memcache_v1_internal::CloudMemcacheRetryTraits \u003e` \n\n### CloudMemcacheLimitedErrorCountRetryPolicy\n\n**Alias Of** : `::google::cloud::internal::LimitedErrorCountRetryPolicy\u003c memcache_v1_internal::CloudMemcacheRetryTraits \u003e` \n\n### CloudMemcachePolicyOptionList\n\n**Alias Of** : `OptionList\u003c CloudMemcacheRetryPolicyOption, CloudMemcacheBackoffPolicyOption, CloudMemcachePollingPolicyOption, CloudMemcacheConnectionIdempotencyPolicyOption \u003e` \nThe options applicable to CloudMemcache."]]
