Candidate

classCandidate

ACandidate represents a single response generated by the model for a given request.

Summary

Public properties
`CitationMetadata?`	`citationMetadata` Metadata about the sources used to generate this content.
`Content`	`content` The actual content generated by the model.
`FinishReason?`	`finishReason` The reason the model stopped generating content, if it exist.
`GroundingMetadata?`	`groundingMetadata` Metadata returned to the client when the model grounds its response.
`List<SafetyRating>`	`safetyRatings` A list of`SafetyRating`s describing the generated content.
`UrlContextMetadata?`	`@PublicPreviewAPI urlContextMetadata` Metadata returned to the client when the`UrlContext` tool is enabled.

val citationMetadata: CitationMetadata?

Metadata about the sources used to generate this content.

val content: Content

The actual content generated by the model.

val finishReason: FinishReason?

The reason the model stopped generating content, if it exist.

val groundingMetadata: GroundingMetadata?

Metadata returned to the client when the model grounds its response.

val safetyRatings: List<SafetyRating>

A list ofSafetyRatings describing the generated content.

@PublicPreviewAPI
val urlContextMetadata: UrlContextMetadata?

Metadata returned to the client when theUrlContext tool is enabled.

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Last updated 2025-10-09 UTC.