Because BulkApply() and Apply() take ownership of the data in the mutations the failures are returned with their full contents, in case the application wants to take further action with them. Any successful mutations are discarded.
Any mutations that fail with an unknown state are included with a grpc::StatusCode::OK.
Returns
Type
Description
std::vector< FailedMutation > const &
status() const
The grpc::Status of the request.
Notice that it can return grpc::Status::OK when there are partial failures in a BulkApply() operation.
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[2.14.0](/cpp/docs/reference/bigtable/2.14.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1bigtable_1_1PermanentMutationFailure)\n- [2.13.0](/cpp/docs/reference/bigtable/2.13.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1bigtable_1_1PermanentMutationFailure)\n- [2.12.0](/cpp/docs/reference/bigtable/2.12.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1bigtable_1_1PermanentMutationFailure)\n- [2.11.0](/cpp/docs/reference/bigtable/2.11.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1bigtable_1_1PermanentMutationFailure) \nReport unrecoverable errors in a partially completed mutation.\n\nConstructors\n------------\n\n### PermanentMutationFailure(char const \\*, std::vector\\\u003c FailedMutation \\\u003e)\n\n### PermanentMutationFailure(char const \\*, grpc::Status, std::vector\\\u003c FailedMutation \\\u003e)\n\nFunctions\n---------\n\n### failures() const\n\nThe details of each mutation failure. \nBecause BulkApply() and Apply() take ownership of the data in the mutations the failures are returned with their full contents, in case the application wants to take further action with them. Any successful mutations are discarded.\n\nAny mutations that fail with an unknown state are included with a `grpc::StatusCode::OK`.\n\n### status() const\n\nThe `grpc::Status` of the request. \nNotice that it can return `grpc::Status::OK` when there are partial failures in a `BulkApply()` operation."]]