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PolicyViolationError

Enum describing possible policy violation errors.

Proto definition

Enums
`POLICY_ERROR`	A policy was violated. See PolicyViolationDetails for more detail.
`UNKNOWN`	The received error code is not known in this version.
`UNSPECIFIED`	Enum unspecified.

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PolicyViolationError

`POLICY_ERROR`

`UNKNOWN`

`UNSPECIFIED`

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POLICY_ERROR

UNKNOWN

UNSPECIFIED

PolicyViolationError

`POLICY_ERROR`

`UNKNOWN`

`UNSPECIFIED`