Stay organized with collections Save and categorize content based on your preferences.
Unless otherwise configured, the client libraries use Application Default Credentials to authenticate with Google Cloud Services. While this works for most applications, in some cases you may need to override this default. You can do so by providing the UnifiedCredentialsOption The following example shows how to explicitly load a service account key file:
[](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::osconfig_agentendpoint_v1::AgentEndpointServiceClient(
google::cloud::osconfig_agentendpoint_v1::
MakeAgentEndpointServiceConnection(options));
}
Follow these links to find examples for other *Client
classes:
osconfig_agentendpoint_v1::AgentEndpointServiceClient
osconfig_v1::OsConfigServiceClient
osconfig_v1::OsConfigZonalServiceClient
Keep in mind that we chose this as an example because it is relatively easy to understand. Consult the Best practices for managing service account keys guide for more details.
See AlsoAuthentication Components - for more information on the factory functions to create google::cloud::Credentials
objects.
Except as otherwise noted, the content of this page is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License, and code samples are licensed under the Apache 2.0 License. For details, see the Google Developers Site Policies. Java is a registered trademark of Oracle and/or its affiliates.
Last updated 2025-08-14 UTC.
[[["Easy to understand","easyToUnderstand","thumb-up"],["Solved my problem","solvedMyProblem","thumb-up"],["Other","otherUp","thumb-up"]],[["Hard to understand","hardToUnderstand","thumb-down"],["Incorrect information or sample code","incorrectInformationOrSampleCode","thumb-down"],["Missing the information/samples I need","missingTheInformationSamplesINeed","thumb-down"],["Other","otherDown","thumb-down"]],["Last updated 2025-08-14 UTC."],[[["This page provides documentation for overriding default authentication credentials when using Google Cloud client libraries, specifically focusing on how to utilize `UnifiedCredentialsOption`."],["The most recent release candidate version is 2.37.0-rc, and a range of previous versions are also listed, spanning from 2.36.0 back to 2.11.0."],["An example demonstrates how to load a service account key file using `UnifiedCredentialsOption`, and it is mentioned that this can be done for the `AgentEndpointServiceClient`, `OsConfigServiceClient`, and `OsConfigZonalServiceClient`."],["Application Default Credentials are used to authenticate with Google Cloud Services, but it can be overriden in some cases, which is the main content of the documentation."],["For more information about managing service account keys, the documentation recommends consulting the [Best practices for managing service account keys](https://cloud.google.com/iam/docs/best-practices-for-managing-service-account-keys) guide."]]],[]]
RetroSearch is an open source project built by @garambo | Open a GitHub Issue
Search and Browse the WWW like it's 1997 | Search results from DuckDuckGo
HTML:
3.2
| Encoding:
UTF-8
| Version:
0.7.4