An opaque representation of the authentication configuration.
Applications use factory functions to provide the authentication parameters (for example, a raw access token). The factory function encapsulates the parameters in an instance of this class. The interface in this class is (intentionally) very narrow. Only the internal components in the client libraries should need to access the details of this class.
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The factory function encapsulates the parameters in an instance of this class. The interface in this class is (intentionally) very narrow. Only the internal components in the client libraries should need to access the details of this class.\n\nYou can use the [OAuth2 Library](https://cloud.google.com/cpp/docs/reference/oauth2/latest) to create access tokens from a [`Credentials`](/cpp/docs/reference/common/2.30.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1Credentials) object.\n\n###### See Also\n\n\u003chttps://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication\u003e for more information on authentication in GCP.\n\n###### See Also\n\n\u003chttps://cloud.google.com/iam\u003e for more information on the IAM Service."]]