public sealed class CitationMetadata : IMessage<CitationMetadata>, IEquatable<CitationMetadata>, IDeepCloneable<CitationMetadata>, IBufferMessage, IMessage
Reference documentation and code samples for the Vertex AI v1beta1 API class CitationMetadata.
A collection of source attributions for a piece of content.
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