The returned connection object should not be used directly; instead it should be passed as an argument to the constructor ofAssetServiceClient.
The optionaloptionsargument may be used to configure aspects of the returnedAssetServiceConnection. Expected options are any of the types in the following option lists:
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\u003ccode\u003eAssetServiceConnection\u003c/code\u003e, and related retry and policy classes and options.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThe page details the \u003ccode\u003eMakeAssetServiceConnection\u003c/code\u003e factory function, which is used to construct an \u003ccode\u003eAssetServiceConnection\u003c/code\u003e object and allows configuration through various options like CommonOptionList and GrpcOptionList.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ccode\u003eAssetServicePolicyOptionList\u003c/code\u003e type alias is defined, enabling combined configuration of retry, backoff, polling, and connection idempotency policies for the Asset Service.\u003c/p\u003e\n"]]],[],null,["# Namespace google::cloud::asset_v1 (2.18.0)\n\nVersion 2.18.0keyboard_arrow_down\n\n- [2.42.0-rc (latest)](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/latest/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1)\n- [2.41.0](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.41.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1)\n- [2.40.0](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.40.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1)\n- [2.39.0](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.39.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1)\n- [2.38.0](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.38.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1)\n- [2.37.0](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.37.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1)\n- [2.36.0](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.36.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1)\n- [2.35.0](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.35.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1)\n- [2.34.0](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.34.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1)\n- [2.33.0](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.33.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1)\n- [2.32.0](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.32.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1)\n- [2.31.0](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.31.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1)\n- [2.30.0](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.30.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1)\n- [2.29.0](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.29.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1)\n- [2.28.0](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.28.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1)\n- [2.27.0](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.27.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1)\n- [2.26.0](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.26.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1)\n- [2.25.1](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.25.1/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1)\n- [2.24.0](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.24.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1)\n- [2.23.0](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.23.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1)\n- [2.22.1](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.22.1/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1)\n- [2.21.0](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.21.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1)\n- [2.20.0](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.20.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1)\n- [2.19.0](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.19.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1)\n- [2.18.0](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.18.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1)\n- [2.17.0](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.17.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1)\n- [2.16.0](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.16.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1)\n- [2.15.1](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.15.1/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1)\n- [2.14.0](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.14.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1)\n- [2.13.0](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.13.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1)\n- [2.12.0](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.12.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1)\n- [2.11.0](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.11.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1) \n\nClasses\n-------\n\n### [AssetServiceClient](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.18.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1_1_1AssetServiceClient)\n\nAsset service definition.\n\n### [AssetServiceConnection](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.18.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1_1_1AssetServiceConnection)\n\nThe [`AssetServiceConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.18.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1_1_1AssetServiceConnection) object for [`AssetServiceClient`](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.18.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1_1_1AssetServiceClient).\n\n### [AssetServiceConnectionIdempotencyPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.18.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1_1_1AssetServiceConnectionIdempotencyPolicy)\n\n### [AssetServiceLimitedErrorCountRetryPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.18.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1_1_1AssetServiceLimitedErrorCountRetryPolicy)\n\nA retry policy for [`AssetServiceConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.18.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1_1_1AssetServiceConnection) based on counting errors.\n\n### [AssetServiceLimitedTimeRetryPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.18.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1_1_1AssetServiceLimitedTimeRetryPolicy)\n\nA retry policy for [`AssetServiceConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.18.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1_1_1AssetServiceConnection) based on elapsed time.\n\n### [AssetServiceRetryPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.18.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1_1_1AssetServiceRetryPolicy)\n\nThe retry policy for [`AssetServiceConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.18.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1_1_1AssetServiceConnection).\n\nStructs\n-------\n\n### [AssetServiceBackoffPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.18.0/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1_1_1AssetServiceBackoffPolicyOption)\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### [AssetServiceConnectionIdempotencyPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.18.0/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1_1_1AssetServiceConnectionIdempotencyPolicyOption)\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### [AssetServicePollingPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.18.0/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1_1_1AssetServicePollingPolicyOption)\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### [AssetServiceRetryPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.18.0/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1_1_1AssetServiceRetryPolicyOption)\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### MakeAssetServiceConnection(Options)\n\nA factory function to construct an object of type [`AssetServiceConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.18.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1_1_1AssetServiceConnection). \nThe returned connection object should not be used directly; instead it should be passed as an argument to the constructor of [AssetServiceClient](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.18.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1_1_1AssetServiceClient).\n\nThe optional `options` argument may be used to configure aspects of the returned [`AssetServiceConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.18.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1_1_1AssetServiceConnection). 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::asset_v1::AssetServicePolicyOptionList`](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.18.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__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### MakeDefaultAssetServiceConnectionIdempotencyPolicy()\n\nType Aliases\n------------\n\n### AssetServicePolicyOptionList\n\n**Alias Of** : `OptionList\u003c AssetServiceRetryPolicyOption, AssetServiceBackoffPolicyOption, AssetServicePollingPolicyOption, AssetServiceConnectionIdempotencyPolicyOption \u003e` \nThe options applicable to AssetService."]]
