Cloud Shell API C++ Client Library

An idiomatic C++ client library for the Cloud Shell API, a service to allow users to start, configure, and connect to interactive shell sessions running in the cloud.

While this library is GA, please note Google Cloud C++ client libraries do not follow Semantic Versioning.

Quickstart

The following shows the code that you'll run in the google/cloud/shell/quickstart/ directory, which should give you a taste of the Cloud Shell API C++ client library API.

#include "google/cloud/shell/v1/cloud_shell_client.h"
#include <iostream>
#include <string>

int main(int argc, char* argv[]) try {
  if (argc != 2) {
    std::cerr << "Usage: " << argv[0] << " user\n";
    return 1;
  }

  namespace shell = ::google::cloud::shell_v1;
  auto client =
      shell::CloudShellServiceClient(shell::MakeCloudShellServiceConnection());

  auto const name = "users/" + std::string{argv[1]} + "/environments/default";
  auto env = client.GetEnvironment(name);
  if (!env) throw std::move(env).status();
  std::cout << env->DebugString() << "\n";

  return 0;
} catch (google::cloud::Status const& status) {
  std::cerr << "google::cloud::Status thrown: " << status << "\n";
  return 1;
}

Main classes

The main class in this library is shell_v1::CloudShellServiceClient. All RPCs are exposed as member functions of this class. Other classes provide helpers, configuration parameters, and infrastructure to mock shell_v1::CloudShellServiceClient when testing your application.

Retry, Backoff, and Idempotency Policies.

The library automatically retries requests that fail with transient errors, and uses exponential backoff to backoff between retries. Application developers can override the default policies.

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