An idiomatic C++ client library for the Cloud SQL Admin API, a service for Cloud SQL database instance management.
While this library is GA, please note that the Google Cloud C++ client libraries do not follow Semantic Versioning.
Quickstart
The following shows the code that you'll run in the google/cloud/sql/quickstart/ directory, which should give you a taste of the Cloud SQL Admin API C++ client library API.
This library offers multiple *Client classes, which are listed below. Each one of these classes exposes all the RPCs for a service as member functions of the class. This library groups multiple services because they are part of the same product or are often used together. A typical example may be the administrative and data plane operations for a single product.
The library also has other classes that provide helpers, configuration parameters, and infrastructure to mock the *Client classes when testing your application.
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Each one of these classes exposes all the RPCs for a service as member functions of the class. This library groups multiple services because they are part of the same product or are often used together. A typical example may be the administrative and data plane operations for a single product.\n\nThe library also has other classes that provide helpers, configuration parameters, and infrastructure to mock the `*Client` classes when testing your application.\n\n- [`sql_v1::SqlBackupRunsServiceClient`](/cpp/docs/reference/sql/2.19.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1sql__v1_1_1SqlBackupRunsServiceClient)\n- [`sql_v1::SqlConnectServiceClient`](/cpp/docs/reference/sql/2.19.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1sql__v1_1_1SqlConnectServiceClient)\n- [`sql_v1::SqlDatabasesServiceClient`](/cpp/docs/reference/sql/2.19.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1sql__v1_1_1SqlDatabasesServiceClient)\n- [`sql_v1::SqlFlagsServiceClient`](/cpp/docs/reference/sql/2.19.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1sql__v1_1_1SqlFlagsServiceClient)\n- [`sql_v1::SqlInstancesServiceClient`](/cpp/docs/reference/sql/2.19.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1sql__v1_1_1SqlInstancesServiceClient)\n- [`sql_v1::SqlOperationsServiceClient`](/cpp/docs/reference/sql/2.19.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1sql__v1_1_1SqlOperationsServiceClient)\n- [`sql_v1::SqlSslCertsServiceClient`](/cpp/docs/reference/sql/2.19.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1sql__v1_1_1SqlSslCertsServiceClient)\n- [`sql_v1::SqlTiersServiceClient`](/cpp/docs/reference/sql/2.19.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1sql__v1_1_1SqlTiersServiceClient)\n- [`sql_v1::SqlUsersServiceClient`](/cpp/docs/reference/sql/2.19.0/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1sql__v1_1_1SqlUsersServiceClient)\n\n### More Information\n\n- [Error Handling](https://cloud.google.com/cpp/docs/reference/common/latest/common-error-handling.html) - describes how the library reports errors.\n- [How to Override the Default Endpoint](/cpp/docs/reference/sql/2.19.0/sql-override-endpoint) - describes how to override the default endpoint.\n- [How to Override the Authentication Credentials](/cpp/docs/reference/sql/2.19.0/sql-override-authentication) - describes how to change the authentication credentials used by the library.\n- [Override Retry, Backoff, and Idempotency Policies](/cpp/docs/reference/sql/2.19.0/sql-override-retry) - describes how to change the default retry policies.\n- [Environment Variables](/cpp/docs/reference/sql/2.19.0/sql-env) - describes environment variables that can configure the behavior of the library."]]