Override compute_backend_services_v1::BackendServicesClient Authentication Defaults
[](std::string const& keyfile) {
auto is = std::ifstream(keyfile);
is.exceptions(std::ios::badbit); // Minimal error handling in examples
auto contents = std::string(std::istreambuf_iterator<char>(is.rdbuf()), {});
auto options =
google::cloud::Options{}.set<google::cloud::UnifiedCredentialsOption>(
google::cloud::MakeServiceAccountCredentials(contents));
return google::cloud::compute_backend_services_v1::BackendServicesClient(
google::cloud::compute_backend_services_v1::
MakeBackendServicesConnectionRest(options));
}
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