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:
[[["Easy to understand","easyToUnderstand","thumb-up"],["Solved my problem","solvedMyProblem","thumb-up"],["Other","otherUp","thumb-up"]],[["Hard to understand","hardToUnderstand","thumb-down"],["Incorrect information or sample code","incorrectInformationOrSampleCode","thumb-down"],["Missing the information/samples I need","missingTheInformationSamplesINeed","thumb-down"],["Other","otherDown","thumb-down"]],["Last updated 2025-09-04 UTC."],[[["\u003cp\u003eThis webpage provides documentation for the Google Cloud Asset API C++ client library, with version 2.37.0-rc being the latest release candidate and 2.20.0 being the current version displayed.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThe page lists various versions of the C++ client library for the Asset API, ranging from the latest 2.37.0-rc down to version 2.11.0, each with links to their respective documentation.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eKey classes documented include \u003ccode\u003eAssetServiceClient\u003c/code\u003e and \u003ccode\u003eAssetServiceConnection\u003c/code\u003e, which provide methods for interacting with the Asset service, while retry and backoff policies are available for improved resilience.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThe documentation provides details on how to configure options such as retry policies, backoff policies, and connection settings through the use of various struct options like \u003ccode\u003eAssetServiceRetryPolicyOption\u003c/code\u003e and \u003ccode\u003eAssetServiceBackoffPolicyOption\u003c/code\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThe page includes a \u003ccode\u003eMakeAssetServiceConnection\u003c/code\u003e function to create an \u003ccode\u003eAssetServiceConnection\u003c/code\u003e object, and a \u003ccode\u003eMakeDefaultAssetServiceConnectionIdempotencyPolicy\u003c/code\u003e function to retrieve the default connection idempotency policy.\u003c/p\u003e\n"]]],[],null,["# Namespace google::cloud::asset_v1 (2.20.0)\n\nVersion 2.20.0keyboard_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/2.20.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1_1_1AssetServiceClient)\n\nAsset service definition.\n\n### [AssetServiceConnection](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.20.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1_1_1AssetServiceConnection)\n\nThe [`AssetServiceConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.20.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1_1_1AssetServiceConnection) object for [`AssetServiceClient`](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.20.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1_1_1AssetServiceClient).\n\n### [AssetServiceConnectionIdempotencyPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.20.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1_1_1AssetServiceConnectionIdempotencyPolicy)\n\n### [AssetServiceLimitedErrorCountRetryPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.20.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1_1_1AssetServiceLimitedErrorCountRetryPolicy)\n\nA retry policy for [`AssetServiceConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.20.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1_1_1AssetServiceConnection) based on counting errors.\n\n### [AssetServiceLimitedTimeRetryPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.20.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1_1_1AssetServiceLimitedTimeRetryPolicy)\n\nA retry policy for [`AssetServiceConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.20.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1_1_1AssetServiceConnection) based on elapsed time.\n\n### [AssetServiceRetryPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.20.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1_1_1AssetServiceRetryPolicy)\n\nThe retry policy for [`AssetServiceConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.20.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1asset__v1_1_1AssetServiceConnection).\n\nStructs\n-------\n\n### [AssetServiceBackoffPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/asset/2.20.0/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/2.20.0/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/2.20.0/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/2.20.0/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/2.20.0/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/2.20.0/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/2.20.0/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/2.20.0/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."]]
