The returned connection object should not be used directly; instead it should be passed as an argument to the constructor of StorageControlClient.
The optional options argument may be used to configure aspects of the returned StorageControlConnection. Expected options are any of the types in the following option lists:
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\u003ccode\u003eStorageControlLimitedErrorCountRetryPolicy\u003c/code\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eIt includes structs like \u003ccode\u003eStorageControlBackoffPolicyOption\u003c/code\u003e to help with configuring different policies for the \u003ccode\u003eStorageControlConnection\u003c/code\u003e, through the \u003ccode\u003egoogle::cloud::Options\u003c/code\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThe document defines functions such as \u003ccode\u003eMakeStorageControlConnection\u003c/code\u003e, used to create a \u003ccode\u003eStorageControlConnection\u003c/code\u003e object, and \u003ccode\u003eMakeDefaultStorageControlConnectionIdempotencyPolicy\u003c/code\u003e, which returns a default idempotency policy.\u003c/p\u003e\n"],["\u003cp\u003eThere are multiple versioned documentations available, ranging from version 2.21.0 up to the latest 2.37.0-rc.\u003c/p\u003e\n"]]],[],null,["# Namespace google::cloud::storagecontrol_v2 (2.42.0-rc)\n\nVersion latestkeyboard_arrow_down\n\n- [2.42.0-rc (latest)](/cpp/docs/reference/storagecontrol/latest/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1storagecontrol__v2)\n- [2.41.0](/cpp/docs/reference/storagecontrol/2.41.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1storagecontrol__v2)\n- [2.40.0](/cpp/docs/reference/storagecontrol/2.40.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1storagecontrol__v2)\n- [2.39.0](/cpp/docs/reference/storagecontrol/2.39.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1storagecontrol__v2)\n- [2.38.0](/cpp/docs/reference/storagecontrol/2.38.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1storagecontrol__v2)\n- [2.37.0](/cpp/docs/reference/storagecontrol/2.37.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1storagecontrol__v2)\n- [2.36.0](/cpp/docs/reference/storagecontrol/2.36.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1storagecontrol__v2)\n- [2.35.0](/cpp/docs/reference/storagecontrol/2.35.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1storagecontrol__v2)\n- [2.34.0](/cpp/docs/reference/storagecontrol/2.34.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1storagecontrol__v2)\n- [2.33.0](/cpp/docs/reference/storagecontrol/2.33.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1storagecontrol__v2)\n- [2.32.0](/cpp/docs/reference/storagecontrol/2.32.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1storagecontrol__v2)\n- [2.31.0](/cpp/docs/reference/storagecontrol/2.31.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1storagecontrol__v2)\n- [2.30.0](/cpp/docs/reference/storagecontrol/2.30.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1storagecontrol__v2)\n- [2.29.0](/cpp/docs/reference/storagecontrol/2.29.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1storagecontrol__v2)\n- [2.28.0](/cpp/docs/reference/storagecontrol/2.28.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1storagecontrol__v2)\n- [2.27.0](/cpp/docs/reference/storagecontrol/2.27.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1storagecontrol__v2)\n- [2.26.0](/cpp/docs/reference/storagecontrol/2.26.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1storagecontrol__v2)\n- [2.25.1](/cpp/docs/reference/storagecontrol/2.25.1/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1storagecontrol__v2)\n- [2.24.0](/cpp/docs/reference/storagecontrol/2.24.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1storagecontrol__v2)\n- [2.23.0](/cpp/docs/reference/storagecontrol/2.23.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1storagecontrol__v2)\n- [2.22.1](/cpp/docs/reference/storagecontrol/2.22.1/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1storagecontrol__v2)\n- [2.21.0](/cpp/docs/reference/storagecontrol/2.21.0/namespacegoogle_1_1cloud_1_1storagecontrol__v2) \n\nClasses\n-------\n\n### [StorageControlClient](/cpp/docs/reference/storagecontrol/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1storagecontrol__v2_1_1StorageControlClient)\n\nStorageControl service includes selected control plane operations.\n\n### [StorageControlConnection](/cpp/docs/reference/storagecontrol/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1storagecontrol__v2_1_1StorageControlConnection)\n\nThe [`StorageControlConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/storagecontrol/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1storagecontrol__v2_1_1StorageControlConnection) object for [`StorageControlClient`](/cpp/docs/reference/storagecontrol/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1storagecontrol__v2_1_1StorageControlClient).\n\n### [StorageControlConnectionIdempotencyPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/storagecontrol/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1storagecontrol__v2_1_1StorageControlConnectionIdempotencyPolicy)\n\n### [StorageControlLimitedErrorCountRetryPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/storagecontrol/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1storagecontrol__v2_1_1StorageControlLimitedErrorCountRetryPolicy)\n\nA retry policy for [`StorageControlConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/storagecontrol/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1storagecontrol__v2_1_1StorageControlConnection) based on counting errors.\n\n### [StorageControlLimitedTimeRetryPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/storagecontrol/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1storagecontrol__v2_1_1StorageControlLimitedTimeRetryPolicy)\n\nA retry policy for [`StorageControlConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/storagecontrol/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1storagecontrol__v2_1_1StorageControlConnection) based on elapsed time.\n\n### [StorageControlRetryPolicy](/cpp/docs/reference/storagecontrol/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1storagecontrol__v2_1_1StorageControlRetryPolicy)\n\nThe retry policy for [`StorageControlConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/storagecontrol/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1storagecontrol__v2_1_1StorageControlConnection).\n\nStructs\n-------\n\n### [StorageControlBackoffPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/storagecontrol/latest/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1storagecontrol__v2_1_1StorageControlBackoffPolicyOption)\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### [StorageControlConnectionIdempotencyPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/storagecontrol/latest/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1storagecontrol__v2_1_1StorageControlConnectionIdempotencyPolicyOption)\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### [StorageControlPollingPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/storagecontrol/latest/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1storagecontrol__v2_1_1StorageControlPollingPolicyOption)\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### [StorageControlRetryPolicyOption](/cpp/docs/reference/storagecontrol/latest/structgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1storagecontrol__v2_1_1StorageControlRetryPolicyOption)\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### MakeStorageControlConnection(Options)\n\nA factory function to construct an object of type [`StorageControlConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/storagecontrol/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1storagecontrol__v2_1_1StorageControlConnection). \nThe returned connection object should not be used directly; instead it should be passed as an argument to the constructor of [StorageControlClient](/cpp/docs/reference/storagecontrol/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1storagecontrol__v2_1_1StorageControlClient).\n\nThe optional `options` argument may be used to configure aspects of the returned [`StorageControlConnection`](/cpp/docs/reference/storagecontrol/latest/classgoogle_1_1cloud_1_1storagecontrol__v2_1_1StorageControlConnection). 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`](about:invalid#zCSafez)\n- [`google::cloud::storagecontrol_v2::StorageControlPolicyOptionList`](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### MakeDefaultStorageControlConnectionIdempotencyPolicy()"]]
