Sensitive Data Protection provides access to a powerful sensitive data inspection, classification, and de-identification platform that works on text, images, and Google Cloud storage repositories.
The returned connection object should not be used directly; instead it should be passed as an argument to the constructor ofDlpServiceClient.
The optionaloptionsargument may be used to configure aspects of the returnedDlpServiceConnection. Expected options are any of the types in the following option lists:
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\u003ccode\u003eDlpServiceConnection\u003c/code\u003e for managing the connection to the DLP service, in addition to policy classes.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ccode\u003eMakeDlpServiceConnection\u003c/code\u003e function is used to construct a \u003ccode\u003eDlpServiceConnection\u003c/code\u003e object, which can be configured using various option lists.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003e\u003ccode\u003eMakeDefaultDlpServiceConnectionIdempotencyPolicy\u003c/code\u003e is used to create the default policy when accessing the DLP service.\u003c/p\u003e\n"]]],[],null,["# Namespace google::cloud::dlp_v2 (2.32.0)\n\nVersion 2.32.0keyboard_arrow_down\n\n- [2.42.0-rc (latest)](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/latest/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2)\n- [2.41.0](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.41.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2)\n- [2.40.0](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.40.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2)\n- [2.39.0](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.39.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2)\n- [2.38.0](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.38.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2)\n- [2.37.0](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.37.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2)\n- [2.36.0](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.36.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2)\n- [2.35.0](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.35.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2)\n- [2.34.0](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.34.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2)\n- [2.33.0](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.33.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2)\n- [2.32.0](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.32.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2)\n- [2.31.0](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.31.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2)\n- [2.30.0](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.30.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2)\n- [2.29.0](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.29.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2)\n- [2.28.0](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.28.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2)\n- [2.27.0](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.27.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2)\n- [2.26.0](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.26.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2)\n- [2.25.1](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.25.1/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2)\n- [2.24.0](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.24.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2)\n- [2.23.0](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.23.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2)\n- [2.22.1](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.22.1/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2)\n- [2.21.0](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.21.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2)\n- [2.20.0](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.20.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2)\n- [2.19.0](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.19.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2)\n- [2.18.0](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.18.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2)\n- [2.17.0](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.17.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2)\n- [2.16.0](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.16.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2)\n- [2.15.1](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.15.1/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2)\n- [2.14.0](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.14.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2)\n- [2.13.0](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.13.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2)\n- [2.12.0](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.12.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2)\n- [2.11.0](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.11.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2) \n\nClasses\n-------\n\n### [DlpServiceClient](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.32.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2_1_1DlpServiceClient)\n\nSensitive Data Protection provides access to a powerful sensitive data inspection, classification, and de-identification platform that works on text, images, and Google Cloud storage repositories.\n\n### [DlpServiceConnection](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.32.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2_1_1DlpServiceConnection)\n\nThe [`DlpServiceConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.32.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2_1_1DlpServiceConnection) object for [`DlpServiceClient`](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.32.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2_1_1DlpServiceClient).\n\n### [DlpServiceConnectionIdempotencyPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.32.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2_1_1DlpServiceConnectionIdempotencyPolicy)\n\n### [DlpServiceLimitedErrorCountRetryPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.32.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2_1_1DlpServiceLimitedErrorCountRetryPolicy)\n\nA retry policy for [`DlpServiceConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.32.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2_1_1DlpServiceConnection) based on counting errors.\n\n### [DlpServiceLimitedTimeRetryPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.32.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2_1_1DlpServiceLimitedTimeRetryPolicy)\n\nA retry policy for [`DlpServiceConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.32.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2_1_1DlpServiceConnection) based on elapsed time.\n\n### [DlpServiceRetryPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.32.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2_1_1DlpServiceRetryPolicy)\n\nThe retry policy for [`DlpServiceConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.32.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2_1_1DlpServiceConnection).\n\nStructs\n-------\n\n### [DlpServiceBackoffPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.32.0/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2_1_1DlpServiceBackoffPolicyOption)\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### [DlpServiceConnectionIdempotencyPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.32.0/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2_1_1DlpServiceConnectionIdempotencyPolicyOption)\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### [DlpServiceRetryPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.32.0/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2_1_1DlpServiceRetryPolicyOption)\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### MakeDlpServiceConnection(Options)\n\nA factory function to construct an object of type [`DlpServiceConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.32.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2_1_1DlpServiceConnection). \nThe returned connection object should not be used directly; instead it should be passed as an argument to the constructor of [DlpServiceClient](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.32.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2_1_1DlpServiceClient).\n\nThe optional `options` argument may be used to configure aspects of the returned [`DlpServiceConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.32.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2_1_1DlpServiceConnection). 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::dlp_v2::DlpServicePolicyOptionList`](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### MakeDefaultDlpServiceConnectionIdempotencyPolicy()"]]
