The returned connection object should not be used directly; instead it should be passed as an argument to the constructor ofCloudChannelServiceClient.
The optionaloptionsargument may be used to configure aspects of the returnedCloudChannelServiceConnection. Expected options are any of the types in the following option lists:
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\u003ccode\u003eCloudChannelServiceConnection\u003c/code\u003e for its connection object.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThe page outlines various structs and functions for configuring retry, backoff, and polling policies, offering customization options for the client library.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThe page also defines type aliases for retry policies and the options list specific to the CloudChannelService.\u003c/p\u003e\n"]]],[],null,["# Namespace google::cloud::channel_v1 (2.12.0)\n\nVersion 2.12.0keyboard_arrow_down\n\n- [2.42.0-rc (latest)](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/latest/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__v1)\n- [2.41.0](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/2.41.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__v1)\n- [2.40.0](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/2.40.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__v1)\n- [2.39.0](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/2.39.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__v1)\n- [2.38.0](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/2.38.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__v1)\n- [2.37.0](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/2.37.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__v1)\n- [2.36.0](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/2.36.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__v1)\n- [2.35.0](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/2.35.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__v1)\n- [2.34.0](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/2.34.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__v1)\n- [2.33.0](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/2.33.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__v1)\n- [2.32.0](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/2.32.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__v1)\n- [2.31.0](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/2.31.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__v1)\n- [2.30.0](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/2.30.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__v1)\n- [2.29.0](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/2.29.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__v1)\n- [2.28.0](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/2.28.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__v1)\n- [2.27.0](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/2.27.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__v1)\n- [2.26.0](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/2.26.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__v1)\n- [2.25.1](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/2.25.1/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__v1)\n- [2.24.0](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/2.24.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__v1)\n- [2.23.0](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/2.23.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__v1)\n- [2.22.1](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/2.22.1/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__v1)\n- [2.21.0](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/2.21.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__v1)\n- [2.20.0](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/2.20.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__v1)\n- [2.19.0](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/2.19.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__v1)\n- [2.18.0](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/2.18.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__v1)\n- [2.17.0](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/2.17.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__v1)\n- [2.16.0](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/2.16.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__v1)\n- [2.15.1](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/2.15.1/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__v1)\n- [2.14.0](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/2.14.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__v1)\n- [2.13.0](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/2.13.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__v1)\n- [2.12.0](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/2.12.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__v1)\n- [2.11.0](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/2.11.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__v1) \n\nClasses\n-------\n\n### [CloudChannelServiceClient](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/2.12.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__v1_1_1CloudChannelServiceClient)\n\nCloudChannelService lets Google cloud resellers and distributors manage their customers, channel partners, entitlements, and reports.\n\n### [CloudChannelServiceConnection](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/2.12.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__v1_1_1CloudChannelServiceConnection)\n\nThe [`CloudChannelServiceConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/2.12.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__v1_1_1CloudChannelServiceConnection) object for [`CloudChannelServiceClient`](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/2.12.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__v1_1_1CloudChannelServiceClient).\n\n### [CloudChannelServiceConnectionIdempotencyPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/2.12.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__v1_1_1CloudChannelServiceConnectionIdempotencyPolicy)\n\nStructs\n-------\n\n### [CloudChannelServiceBackoffPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/2.12.0/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__v1_1_1CloudChannelServiceBackoffPolicyOption)\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### [CloudChannelServiceConnectionIdempotencyPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/2.12.0/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__v1_1_1CloudChannelServiceConnectionIdempotencyPolicyOption)\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### [CloudChannelServicePollingPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/2.12.0/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__v1_1_1CloudChannelServicePollingPolicyOption)\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### [CloudChannelServiceRetryPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/2.12.0/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__v1_1_1CloudChannelServiceRetryPolicyOption)\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### MakeCloudChannelServiceConnection(Options)\n\nA factory function to construct an object of type [`CloudChannelServiceConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/2.12.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__v1_1_1CloudChannelServiceConnection). \nThe returned connection object should not be used directly; instead it should be passed as an argument to the constructor of [CloudChannelServiceClient](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/2.12.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__v1_1_1CloudChannelServiceClient).\n\nThe optional `options` argument may be used to configure aspects of the returned [`CloudChannelServiceConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/2.12.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__v1_1_1CloudChannelServiceConnection). 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::channel_v1::CloudChannelServicePolicyOptionList`](/cpp/docs/reference/channel/2.12.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1channel__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### MakeDefaultCloudChannelServiceConnectionIdempotencyPolicy()\n\nType Aliases\n------------\n\n### CloudChannelServiceRetryPolicy\n\n**Alias Of** : `::google::cloud::internal::TraitBasedRetryPolicy\u003c channel_v1_internal::CloudChannelServiceRetryTraits \u003e` \n\n### CloudChannelServiceLimitedTimeRetryPolicy\n\n**Alias Of** : `::google::cloud::internal::LimitedTimeRetryPolicy\u003c channel_v1_internal::CloudChannelServiceRetryTraits \u003e` \n\n### CloudChannelServiceLimitedErrorCountRetryPolicy\n\n**Alias Of** : `::google::cloud::internal::LimitedErrorCountRetryPolicy\u003c channel_v1_internal::CloudChannelServiceRetryTraits \u003e` \n\n### CloudChannelServicePolicyOptionList\n\n**Alias Of** : `OptionList\u003c CloudChannelServiceRetryPolicyOption, CloudChannelServiceBackoffPolicyOption, CloudChannelServicePollingPolicyOption, CloudChannelServiceConnectionIdempotencyPolicyOption \u003e` \nThe options applicable to CloudChannelService."]]
