A factory function to construct an object of typeIDSConnection.
The returned connection object should not be used directly; instead it should be passed as an argument to the constructor ofIDSClient.
The optionaloptionsargument may be used to configure aspects of the returnedIDSConnection. Expected options are any of the types in the following option lists:
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and idempotency policies.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThe page details functions such as \u003ccode\u003eMakeIDSConnection\u003c/code\u003e, which creates an \u003ccode\u003eIDSConnection\u003c/code\u003e object, and \u003ccode\u003eMakeDefaultIDSConnectionIdempotencyPolicy\u003c/code\u003e, which sets up default idempotency policies.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eSeveral Structs are available to modify the retry, backoff, polling and idempotency policy options, with reference to the \u003ccode\u003egoogle::cloud::Options\u003c/code\u003e class.\u003c/p\u003e\n"]]],[],null,["# Namespace google::cloud::ids_v1 (2.30.0)\n\nVersion 2.30.0keyboard_arrow_down\n\n- [2.42.0-rc (latest)](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/latest/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1)\n- [2.41.0](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.41.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1)\n- [2.40.0](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.40.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1)\n- [2.39.0](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.39.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1)\n- [2.38.0](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.38.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1)\n- [2.37.0](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.37.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1)\n- [2.36.0](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.36.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1)\n- [2.35.0](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.35.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1)\n- [2.34.0](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.34.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1)\n- [2.33.0](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.33.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1)\n- [2.32.0](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.32.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1)\n- [2.31.0](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.31.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1)\n- [2.30.0](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.30.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1)\n- [2.29.0](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.29.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1)\n- [2.28.0](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.28.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1)\n- [2.27.0](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.27.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1)\n- [2.26.0](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.26.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1)\n- [2.25.1](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.25.1/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1)\n- [2.24.0](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.24.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1)\n- [2.23.0](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.23.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1)\n- [2.22.1](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.22.1/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1)\n- [2.21.0](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.21.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1)\n- [2.20.0](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.20.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1)\n- [2.19.0](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.19.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1)\n- [2.18.0](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.18.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1)\n- [2.17.0](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.17.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1)\n- [2.16.0](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.16.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1)\n- [2.15.1](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.15.1/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1)\n- [2.14.0](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.14.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1)\n- [2.13.0](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.13.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1)\n- [2.12.0](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.12.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1)\n- [2.11.0](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.11.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1) \n\nClasses\n-------\n\n### [IDSClient](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.30.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1_1_1IDSClient)\n\nThe IDS Service.\n\n### [IDSConnection](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.30.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1_1_1IDSConnection)\n\nThe [`IDSConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.30.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1_1_1IDSConnection) object for [`IDSClient`](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.30.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1_1_1IDSClient).\n\n### [IDSConnectionIdempotencyPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.30.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1_1_1IDSConnectionIdempotencyPolicy)\n\n### [IDSLimitedErrorCountRetryPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.30.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1_1_1IDSLimitedErrorCountRetryPolicy)\n\nA retry policy for [`IDSConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.30.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1_1_1IDSConnection) based on counting errors.\n\n### [IDSLimitedTimeRetryPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.30.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1_1_1IDSLimitedTimeRetryPolicy)\n\nA retry policy for [`IDSConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.30.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1_1_1IDSConnection) based on elapsed time.\n\n### [IDSRetryPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.30.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1_1_1IDSRetryPolicy)\n\nThe retry policy for [`IDSConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.30.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1_1_1IDSConnection).\n\nStructs\n-------\n\n### [IDSBackoffPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.30.0/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1_1_1IDSBackoffPolicyOption)\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### [IDSConnectionIdempotencyPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.30.0/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1_1_1IDSConnectionIdempotencyPolicyOption)\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### [IDSPollingPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.30.0/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1_1_1IDSPollingPolicyOption)\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### [IDSRetryPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.30.0/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1_1_1IDSRetryPolicyOption)\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### MakeIDSConnection(Options)\n\nA factory function to construct an object of type [`IDSConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.30.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1_1_1IDSConnection). \nThe returned connection object should not be used directly; instead it should be passed as an argument to the constructor of [IDSClient](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.30.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1_1_1IDSClient).\n\nThe optional `options` argument may be used to configure aspects of the returned [`IDSConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/ids/2.30.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1ids__v1_1_1IDSConnection). 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::ids_v1::IDSPolicyOptionList`](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### MakeDefaultIDSConnectionIdempotencyPolicy()"]]
