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::automl_v1::AutoMlClient(
google::cloud::automl_v1::MakeAutoMlConnection(options));
}
Follow these links to find examples for other *Client classes:
[[["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 2025-03-14 UTC."],[[["The latest release candidate version is 2.37.0-rc, and a range of prior versions are also available, from 2.36.0 down to 2.11.0, with the current version at 2.12.0."],["The client libraries typically use Application Default Credentials, but you can override this by using the `UnifiedCredentialsOption` to load a service account key file."],["There are code snippets available for both `automl_v1::AutoMlClient` and `automl_v1::PredictionServiceClient` to showcase overriding authentication."],["The provided example shows how to override the default credentials by loading a service account key file using the `MakeServiceAccountCredentials` function."],["For further details and best practices regarding service account keys, refer to the \"Best practices for managing service account keys\" guide, and for information about the creation of `google::cloud::Credentials` objects, see the Authentication Components."]]],[]]
