The returned connection object should not be used directly; instead it should be passed as an argument to the constructor of LanguageServiceClient.
The optional options argument may be used to configure aspects of the returned LanguageServiceConnection. 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"]],[["Missing the information I need","missingTheInformationINeed","thumb-down"],["Too complicated / too many steps","tooComplicatedTooManySteps","thumb-down"],["Out of date","outOfDate","thumb-down"],["Samples / code issue","samplesCodeIssue","thumb-down"],["Other","otherDown","thumb-down"]],["Last updated 2025-08-14 UTC."],[[["\u003cp\u003eThis page provides documentation for the Google Cloud C++ Client Library for the Natural Language API, specifically covering versions 2.11.0 through 2.37.0-rc, with 2.37.0-rc being the latest release candidate.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThe documentation includes details on classes such as \u003ccode\u003eLanguageServiceClient\u003c/code\u003e for text analysis operations and \u003ccode\u003eLanguageServiceConnection\u003c/code\u003e for managing connections to the service.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThe document contains multiple other classes and structs related to managing retry policies, like \u003ccode\u003eLanguageServiceLimitedErrorCountRetryPolicy\u003c/code\u003e, \u003ccode\u003eLanguageServiceRetryPolicy\u003c/code\u003e, and \u003ccode\u003eLanguageServiceBackoffPolicyOption\u003c/code\u003e, which can be used for configuring the behavior of the API interaction.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eA function \u003ccode\u003eMakeLanguageServiceConnection\u003c/code\u003e is provided to create a \u003ccode\u003eLanguageServiceConnection\u003c/code\u003e object, which can be configured with various options to customize the connection behavior such as, credentials and common options.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThe function \u003ccode\u003eMakeDefaultLanguageServiceConnectionIdempotencyPolicy\u003c/code\u003e is provided to construct a \u003ccode\u003eLanguageServiceConnectionIdempotencyPolicy\u003c/code\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n"]]],[],null,["# Namespace google::cloud::language_v2 (2.26.0)\n\nVersion 2.26.0keyboard_arrow_down\n\n- [2.42.0-rc (latest)](/cpp/docs/reference/language/latest/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2)\n- [2.41.0](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.41.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2)\n- [2.40.0](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.40.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2)\n- [2.39.0](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.39.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2)\n- [2.38.0](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.38.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2)\n- [2.37.0](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.37.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2)\n- [2.36.0](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.36.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2)\n- [2.35.0](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.35.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2)\n- [2.34.0](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.34.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2)\n- [2.33.0](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.33.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2)\n- [2.32.0](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.32.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2)\n- [2.31.0](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.31.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2)\n- [2.30.0](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.30.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2)\n- [2.29.0](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.29.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2)\n- [2.28.0](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.28.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2)\n- [2.27.0](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.27.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2)\n- [2.26.0](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.26.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2)\n- [2.25.1](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.25.1/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2)\n- [2.24.0](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.24.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2)\n- [2.23.0](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.23.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2)\n- [2.22.1](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.22.1/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2)\n- [2.21.0](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.21.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2)\n- [2.20.0](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.20.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2)\n- [2.19.0](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.19.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2)\n- [2.18.0](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.18.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2)\n- [2.17.0](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.17.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2)\n- [2.16.0](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.16.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2)\n- [2.15.1](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.15.1/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2)\n- [2.14.0](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.14.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2)\n- [2.13.0](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.13.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2)\n- [2.12.0](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.12.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2)\n- [2.11.0](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.11.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2) \n\nClasses\n-------\n\n### [LanguageServiceClient](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.26.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2_1_1LanguageServiceClient)\n\nProvides text analysis operations such as sentiment analysis and entity recognition.\n\n### [LanguageServiceConnection](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.26.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2_1_1LanguageServiceConnection)\n\nThe [`LanguageServiceConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.26.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2_1_1LanguageServiceConnection) object for [`LanguageServiceClient`](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.26.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2_1_1LanguageServiceClient).\n\n### [LanguageServiceConnectionIdempotencyPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.26.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2_1_1LanguageServiceConnectionIdempotencyPolicy)\n\n### [LanguageServiceLimitedErrorCountRetryPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.26.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2_1_1LanguageServiceLimitedErrorCountRetryPolicy)\n\nA retry policy for [`LanguageServiceConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.26.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2_1_1LanguageServiceConnection) based on counting errors.\n\n### [LanguageServiceLimitedTimeRetryPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.26.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2_1_1LanguageServiceLimitedTimeRetryPolicy)\n\nA retry policy for [`LanguageServiceConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.26.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2_1_1LanguageServiceConnection) based on elapsed time.\n\n### [LanguageServiceRetryPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.26.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2_1_1LanguageServiceRetryPolicy)\n\nThe retry policy for [`LanguageServiceConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.26.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2_1_1LanguageServiceConnection).\n\nStructs\n-------\n\n### [LanguageServiceBackoffPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.26.0/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2_1_1LanguageServiceBackoffPolicyOption)\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### [LanguageServiceConnectionIdempotencyPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.26.0/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2_1_1LanguageServiceConnectionIdempotencyPolicyOption)\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### [LanguageServiceRetryPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.26.0/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2_1_1LanguageServiceRetryPolicyOption)\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### MakeLanguageServiceConnection(Options)\n\nA factory function to construct an object of type [`LanguageServiceConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.26.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2_1_1LanguageServiceConnection). \nThe returned connection object should not be used directly; instead it should be passed as an argument to the constructor of [LanguageServiceClient](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.26.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2_1_1LanguageServiceClient).\n\nThe optional `options` argument may be used to configure aspects of the returned [`LanguageServiceConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/language/2.26.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1language__v2_1_1LanguageServiceConnection). 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::language_v2::LanguageServicePolicyOptionList`](about:invalid#zCSafez)\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### MakeDefaultLanguageServiceConnectionIdempotencyPolicy()"]]