The returned connection object should not be used directly; instead it should be passed as an argument to the constructor ofCloudShellServiceClient.
The optionaloptionsargument may be used to configure aspects of the returnedCloudShellServiceConnection. Expected options are any of the types in the following option lists:
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interacting with Google Cloud Shell, alongside various classes related to retry and connection policies.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThe page also outlines the function \u003ccode\u003eMakeCloudShellServiceConnection\u003c/code\u003e, which creates a \u003ccode\u003eCloudShellServiceConnection\u003c/code\u003e object and explains how to configure it using the \u003ccode\u003eoptions\u003c/code\u003e parameter.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThe documentation includes a list of types or aliases, such as \u003ccode\u003eCloudShellServicePolicyOptionList\u003c/code\u003e which is an alias of the \u003ccode\u003eOptionList\u003c/code\u003e type, as well as \u003ccode\u003eMakeDefaultCloudShellServiceConnectionIdempotencyPolicy\u003c/code\u003e and descriptions of their uses.\u003c/p\u003e\n"]]],[],null,["# Namespace google::cloud::shell_v1 (2.14.0)\n\nVersion 2.14.0keyboard_arrow_down\n\n- [2.42.0-rc (latest)](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/latest/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1)\n- [2.41.0](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.41.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1)\n- [2.40.0](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.40.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1)\n- [2.39.0](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.39.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1)\n- [2.38.0](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.38.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1)\n- [2.37.0](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.37.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1)\n- [2.36.0](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.36.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1)\n- [2.35.0](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.35.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1)\n- [2.34.0](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.34.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1)\n- [2.33.0](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.33.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1)\n- [2.32.0](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.32.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1)\n- [2.31.0](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.31.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1)\n- [2.30.0](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.30.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1)\n- [2.29.0](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.29.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1)\n- [2.28.0](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.28.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1)\n- [2.27.0](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.27.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1)\n- [2.26.0](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.26.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1)\n- [2.25.1](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.25.1/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1)\n- [2.24.0](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.24.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1)\n- [2.23.0](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.23.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1)\n- [2.22.1](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.22.1/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1)\n- [2.21.0](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.21.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1)\n- [2.20.0](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.20.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1)\n- [2.19.0](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.19.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1)\n- [2.18.0](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.18.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1)\n- [2.17.0](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.17.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1)\n- [2.16.0](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.16.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1)\n- [2.15.1](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.15.1/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1)\n- [2.14.0](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.14.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1)\n- [2.13.0](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.13.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1)\n- [2.12.0](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.12.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1)\n- [2.11.0](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.11.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1) \n\nClasses\n-------\n\n### [CloudShellServiceClient](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.14.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1_1_1CloudShellServiceClient)\n\nAPI for interacting with Google Cloud Shell.\n\n### [CloudShellServiceConnection](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.14.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1_1_1CloudShellServiceConnection)\n\nThe [`CloudShellServiceConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.14.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1_1_1CloudShellServiceConnection) object for [`CloudShellServiceClient`](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.14.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1_1_1CloudShellServiceClient).\n\n### [CloudShellServiceConnectionIdempotencyPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.14.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1_1_1CloudShellServiceConnectionIdempotencyPolicy)\n\n### [CloudShellServiceLimitedErrorCountRetryPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.14.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1_1_1CloudShellServiceLimitedErrorCountRetryPolicy)\n\nA retry policy for [`CloudShellServiceConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.14.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1_1_1CloudShellServiceConnection) based on counting errors.\n\n### [CloudShellServiceLimitedTimeRetryPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.14.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1_1_1CloudShellServiceLimitedTimeRetryPolicy)\n\nA retry policy for [`CloudShellServiceConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.14.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1_1_1CloudShellServiceConnection) based on elapsed time.\n\n### [CloudShellServiceRetryPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.14.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1_1_1CloudShellServiceRetryPolicy)\n\nThe retry policy for [`CloudShellServiceConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.14.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1_1_1CloudShellServiceConnection).\n\nStructs\n-------\n\n### [CloudShellServiceBackoffPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.14.0/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1_1_1CloudShellServiceBackoffPolicyOption)\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### [CloudShellServiceConnectionIdempotencyPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.14.0/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1_1_1CloudShellServiceConnectionIdempotencyPolicyOption)\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### [CloudShellServicePollingPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.14.0/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1_1_1CloudShellServicePollingPolicyOption)\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### [CloudShellServiceRetryPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.14.0/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1_1_1CloudShellServiceRetryPolicyOption)\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### MakeCloudShellServiceConnection(Options)\n\nA factory function to construct an object of type [`CloudShellServiceConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.14.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1_1_1CloudShellServiceConnection). \nThe returned connection object should not be used directly; instead it should be passed as an argument to the constructor of [CloudShellServiceClient](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.14.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1_1_1CloudShellServiceClient).\n\nThe optional `options` argument may be used to configure aspects of the returned [`CloudShellServiceConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.14.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__v1_1_1CloudShellServiceConnection). 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::shell_v1::CloudShellServicePolicyOptionList`](/cpp/docs/reference/shell/2.14.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1shell__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### MakeDefaultCloudShellServiceConnectionIdempotencyPolicy()\n\nType Aliases\n------------\n\n### CloudShellServicePolicyOptionList\n\n**Alias Of** : `OptionList\u003c CloudShellServiceRetryPolicyOption, CloudShellServiceBackoffPolicyOption, CloudShellServicePollingPolicyOption, CloudShellServiceConnectionIdempotencyPolicyOption \u003e` \nThe options applicable to CloudShellService."]]
