Generative Language API C++ Client Library

An idiomatic C++ client library for the Generative Language API.

The Gemini API allows developers to build generative AI applications using Gemini models. Gemini is our most capable model, built from the ground up to be multimodal. It can generalize and seamlessly understand, operate across, and combine different types of information including language, images, audio, video, and code. You can use the Gemini API for use cases like reasoning across text and images, content generation, dialogue agents, summarization and classification systems, and more.

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

Quickstart

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

#include "google/cloud/generativelanguage/v1/model_client.h"
#include "google/cloud/location.h"
#include <iostream>

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

  namespace generativelanguage = ::google::cloud::generativelanguage_v1;
  auto client = generativelanguage::ModelServiceClient(
      generativelanguage::MakeModelServiceConnection());

  for (auto r : client.ListModels({})) {
    if (!r) throw std::move(r).status();
    std::cout << r->DebugString() << "\n";
  }

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

Main classes

This library offers multiple *Client classes, which are listed below. Each one of these classes exposes all the RPCs for a service as member functions of the class. This library groups multiple services because they are part of the same product or are often used together. A typical example may be the administrative and data plane operations for a single product.

The library also has other classes that provide helpers, configuration parameters, and infrastructure to mock the *Client classes when testing your application.

• generativelanguage_v1::GenerativeServiceClient
• generativelanguage_v1::ModelServiceClient

More Information

• Error Handling - describes how the library reports errors.
• How to Override the Default Endpoint - describes how to override the default endpoint.
• How to Override the Authentication Credentials - describes how to change the authentication credentials used by the library.
• Override Retry, Backoff, and Idempotency Policies - describes how to change the default retry policies.
• Environment Variables - describes environment variables that can configure the behavior of the library.