The category of the commitment; specifies whether the commitment is for hardware or software resources. Category MACHINE specifies that you are committing to hardware machine resources such as VCPU or MEMORY, listed in resources. Category LICENSE specifies that you are committing to software licenses, listed in licenseResources. Note that if you specify MACHINE commitments, then you must also specify a type to indicate the machine series of the hardware resource that you are committing to.
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enum Commitment.Category extends Enum\u003cCommitment.Category\u003e implements ProtocolMessageEnum\n\nThe category of the commitment; specifies whether the commitment is for hardware or software resources. Category MACHINE specifies that you are committing to hardware machine resources such as VCPU or MEMORY, listed in resources. Category LICENSE specifies that you are committing to software licenses, listed in licenseResources. Note that if you specify MACHINE commitments, then you must also specify a type to indicate the machine series of the hardware resource that you are committing to.\n\nProtobuf enum `google.cloud.compute.v1.Commitment.Category` \n\nImplements\n----------\n\n[ProtocolMessageEnum](https://cloud.google.com/java/docs/reference/protobuf/latest/com.google.protobuf.ProtocolMessageEnum.html) \n\nInherited Members\n-----------------\n\n[Enum.\\\u003cT\\\u003evalueOf(Class\\\u003cT\\\u003e,String)](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Enum.html#valueOf-java.lang.Class-java.lang.String-) \n[Enum.clone()](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Enum.html#clone--) \n[Enum.compareTo(E)](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Enum.html#compareTo-E-) \n[Enum.equals(Object)](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Enum.html#equals-java.lang.Object-) \n[Enum.finalize()](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Enum.html#finalize--) \n[Enum.getDeclaringClass()](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Enum.html#getDeclaringClass--) \n[Enum.hashCode()](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Enum.html#hashCode--) \n[Enum.name()](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Enum.html#name--) \n[Enum.ordinal()](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Enum.html#ordinal--) \n[Enum.toString()](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Enum.html#toString--) \n[Object.getClass()](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html#getClass--) \n[Object.notify()](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html#notify--) \n[Object.notifyAll()](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html#notifyAll--) \n[Object.wait()](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html#wait--) \n[Object.wait(long)](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html#wait-long-) \n[Object.wait(long,int)](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html#wait-long-int-)"]]