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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several retry policies listed, including \u003ccode\u003eDlpServiceLimitedErrorCountRetryPolicy\u003c/code\u003e and \u003ccode\u003eDlpServiceLimitedTimeRetryPolicy\u003c/code\u003e, as well as a more generic \u003ccode\u003eDlpServiceRetryPolicy\u003c/code\u003e, which allows for configuration of how retries are handled in case of errors or failures.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThe documentation provides information on creating a \u003ccode\u003eDlpServiceConnection\u003c/code\u003e via the \u003ccode\u003eMakeDlpServiceConnection\u003c/code\u003e function, which should not be used directly, and is configured using optional arguments such as \u003ccode\u003eCommonOptionList\u003c/code\u003e, \u003ccode\u003eGrpcOptionList\u003c/code\u003e, \u003ccode\u003eUnifiedCredentialsOptionList\u003c/code\u003e, and \u003ccode\u003eDlpServicePolicyOptionList\u003c/code\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThere is also a function \u003ccode\u003eMakeDefaultDlpServiceConnectionIdempotencyPolicy\u003c/code\u003e which would allow you to set default policies.\u003c/p\u003e\n"]]],[],null,["# Namespace google::cloud::dlp_v2 (2.36.0)\n\nVersion 2.36.0keyboard_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/2.36.0/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/2.36.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2_1_1DlpServiceConnection)\n\nThe [`DlpServiceConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.36.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2_1_1DlpServiceConnection) object for [`DlpServiceClient`](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.36.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2_1_1DlpServiceClient).\n\n### [DlpServiceConnectionIdempotencyPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.36.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2_1_1DlpServiceConnectionIdempotencyPolicy)\n\n### [DlpServiceLimitedErrorCountRetryPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.36.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2_1_1DlpServiceLimitedErrorCountRetryPolicy)\n\nA retry policy for [`DlpServiceConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.36.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2_1_1DlpServiceConnection) based on counting errors.\n\n### [DlpServiceLimitedTimeRetryPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.36.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2_1_1DlpServiceLimitedTimeRetryPolicy)\n\nA retry policy for [`DlpServiceConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.36.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2_1_1DlpServiceConnection) based on elapsed time.\n\n### [DlpServiceRetryPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.36.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2_1_1DlpServiceRetryPolicy)\n\nThe retry policy for [`DlpServiceConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.36.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1dlp__v2_1_1DlpServiceConnection).\n\nStructs\n-------\n\n### [DlpServiceBackoffPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/dlp/2.36.0/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/2.36.0/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/2.36.0/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/2.36.0/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/2.36.0/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/2.36.0/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()"]]
