The returned connection object should not be used directly; instead it should be passed as an argument to the constructor ofCloudRedisClient.
The optionaloptionsargument may be used to configure aspects of the returnedCloudRedisConnection. Expected options are any of the types in the following option lists:
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and manage Cloud Memorystore for Redis instances, alongside other related classes for managing retry policies.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThe page documents the \u003ccode\u003eMakeCloudRedisConnection\u003c/code\u003e function, which is a factory function for creating a \u003ccode\u003eCloudRedisConnection\u003c/code\u003e object, configurable with various options.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThe page also includes the \u003ccode\u003eMakeDefaultCloudRedisConnectionIdempotencyPolicy\u003c/code\u003e function and other types like \u003ccode\u003eStructs\u003c/code\u003e that are associated to the \u003ccode\u003eCloudRedisConnection\u003c/code\u003e to configure retry policies.\u003c/p\u003e\n"]]],[],null,["# Namespace google::cloud::redis_v1 (2.34.0)\n\nVersion 2.34.0keyboard_arrow_down\n\n- [2.42.0-rc (latest)](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/latest/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.41.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.41.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.40.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.40.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.39.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.39.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.38.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.38.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.37.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.37.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.36.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.36.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.35.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.35.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.34.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.34.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.33.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.33.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.32.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.32.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.31.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.31.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.30.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.30.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.29.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.29.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.28.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.28.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.27.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.27.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.26.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.26.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.25.1](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.25.1/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.24.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.24.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.23.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.23.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.22.1](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.22.1/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.21.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.21.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.20.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.20.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.19.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.19.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.18.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.18.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.17.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.17.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.16.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.16.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.15.1](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.15.1/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.14.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.14.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.13.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.13.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.12.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.12.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1)\n- [2.11.0](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.11.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1) \n\nClasses\n-------\n\n### [CloudRedisClient](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.34.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1_1_1CloudRedisClient)\n\nConfigures and manages Cloud Memorystore for Redis instances.\n\n### [CloudRedisConnection](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.34.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1_1_1CloudRedisConnection)\n\nThe [`CloudRedisConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.34.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1_1_1CloudRedisConnection) object for [`CloudRedisClient`](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.34.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1_1_1CloudRedisClient).\n\n### [CloudRedisConnectionIdempotencyPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.34.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1_1_1CloudRedisConnectionIdempotencyPolicy)\n\n### [CloudRedisLimitedErrorCountRetryPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.34.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1_1_1CloudRedisLimitedErrorCountRetryPolicy)\n\nA retry policy for [`CloudRedisConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.34.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1_1_1CloudRedisConnection) based on counting errors.\n\n### [CloudRedisLimitedTimeRetryPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.34.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1_1_1CloudRedisLimitedTimeRetryPolicy)\n\nA retry policy for [`CloudRedisConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.34.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1_1_1CloudRedisConnection) based on elapsed time.\n\n### [CloudRedisRetryPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.34.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1_1_1CloudRedisRetryPolicy)\n\nThe retry policy for [`CloudRedisConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.34.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1_1_1CloudRedisConnection).\n\nStructs\n-------\n\n### [CloudRedisBackoffPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.34.0/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1_1_1CloudRedisBackoffPolicyOption)\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### [CloudRedisConnectionIdempotencyPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.34.0/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1_1_1CloudRedisConnectionIdempotencyPolicyOption)\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### [CloudRedisPollingPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.34.0/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1_1_1CloudRedisPollingPolicyOption)\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### [CloudRedisRetryPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.34.0/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1_1_1CloudRedisRetryPolicyOption)\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### MakeCloudRedisConnection(Options)\n\nA factory function to construct an object of type [`CloudRedisConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.34.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1_1_1CloudRedisConnection). \nThe returned connection object should not be used directly; instead it should be passed as an argument to the constructor of [CloudRedisClient](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.34.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1_1_1CloudRedisClient).\n\nThe optional `options` argument may be used to configure aspects of the returned [`CloudRedisConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/redis/2.34.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1redis__v1_1_1CloudRedisConnection). 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::redis_v1::CloudRedisPolicyOptionList`](about:invalid#zCSafez)\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### MakeDefaultCloudRedisConnectionIdempotencyPolicy()"]]
