FirebaseVertexAI Framework Reference

Structures

The following structures are available globally.

  • Structured representation of a function declaration.

    ThisFunctionDeclaration is a representation of a block of code that can be used as aToolby the model and executed by the client.

    Declaration

    Swift

    @available(iOS15.0,macOS12.0,tvOS15.0,watchOS8.0,*)publicstructFunctionDeclaration:Sendable
    extensionFunctionDeclaration:Encodable
  • A helper tool that the model may use when generating responses.

    ATool is a piece of code that enables the system to interact with external systems to performan action, or set of actions, outside of knowledge and scope of the model.

    Declaration

    Swift

    @available(iOS15.0,macOS12.0,tvOS15.0,watchOS8.0,*)publicstructTool:Sendable
    extensionTool:Encodable
  • Configuration for specifying function calling behavior.

    Declaration

    Swift

    @available(iOS15.0,macOS12.0,tvOS15.0,watchOS8.0,*)publicstructFunctionCallingConfig:Sendable
    extensionFunctionCallingConfig:Encodable
  • Tool configuration for anyTool specified in the request.

    Declaration

    Swift

    @available(iOS15.0,macOS12.0,tvOS15.0,watchOS8.0,*)publicstructToolConfig:Sendable
    extensionToolConfig:Encodable
  • The model’s response to a generate content request.

    Declaration

    Swift

    @available(iOS15.0,macOS12.0,tvOS15.0,watchOS8.0,*)publicstructGenerateContentResponse:Sendable
    extensionGenerateContentResponse:Decodable
  • A struct representing a possible reply to a content generation prompt. Each content generationprompt may produce multiple candidate responses.

    Declaration

    Swift

    @available(iOS15.0,macOS12.0,tvOS15.0,watchOS8.0,*)publicstructCandidate:Sendable
    extensionCandidate:Decodable
  • A collection of source attributions for a piece of content.

    Declaration

    Swift

    @available(iOS15.0,macOS12.0,tvOS15.0,watchOS8.0,*)publicstructCitationMetadata:Sendable
    extensionCitationMetadata:Decodable
  • A struct describing a source attribution.

    Declaration

    Swift

    @available(iOS15.0,macOS12.0,tvOS15.0,watchOS8.0,*)publicstructCitation:Sendable
    extensionCitation:Decodable
  • A value enumerating possible reasons for a model to terminate a content generation request.

    Declaration

    Swift

    @available(iOS15.0,macOS12.0,tvOS15.0,watchOS8.0,*)publicstructFinishReason:DecodableProtoEnum,Hashable,Sendable
  • A metadata struct containing any feedback the model had on the prompt it was provided.

    Declaration

    Swift

    @available(iOS15.0,macOS12.0,tvOS15.0,watchOS8.0,*)publicstructPromptFeedback:Sendable
    extensionPromptFeedback:Decodable
  • A struct defining model parameters to be used when sending generative AIrequests to the backend model.

    Declaration

    Swift

    @available(iOS15.0,macOS12.0,tvOS15.0,watchOS8.0,*)publicstructGenerationConfig:Sendable
    extensionGenerationConfig:Encodable
  • Configuration parameters for sending requests to the backend.

    Declaration

    Swift

    @available(iOS15.0,macOS12.0,tvOS15.0,watchOS8.0,*)publicstructRequestOptions:Sendable
    extensionRequestOptions:Equatable
  • Represents token counting info for a single modality.

    Declaration

    Swift

    @available(iOS15.0,macOS12.0,tvOS15.0,watchOS8.0,*)publicstructModalityTokenCount:Sendable
    extensionModalityTokenCount:Decodable
  • Content part modality.

    Declaration

    Swift

    @available(iOS15.0,macOS12.0,tvOS15.0,watchOS8.0,*)publicstructContentModality:DecodableProtoEnum,Hashable,Sendable
  • A type describing data in media formats interpretable by an AI model. Each generative AIrequest or response contains anArray ofModelContents, and eachModelContent valuemay comprise multiple heterogeneousParts.

    Declaration

    Swift

    @available(iOS15.0,macOS12.0,tvOS15.0,watchOS8.0,*)publicstructModelContent:Equatable,Sendable
    extensionModelContent:Codable
  • A type defining potentially harmful media categories and their model-assigned ratings. A valueof this type may be assigned to a category for every model-generated response, not justresponses that exceed a certain threshold.

    Declaration

    Swift

    @available(iOS15.0,macOS12.0,tvOS15.0,watchOS8.0,*)publicstructSafetyRating:Equatable,Hashable,Sendable
    extensionSafetyRating:Decodable
  • A type used to specify a threshold for harmful content, beyond which the model will return afallback response instead of generated content.

    Seesafety settings for Geminimodels formore details.

    Declaration

    Swift

    @available(iOS15.0,macOS12.0,tvOS15.0,watchOS8.0,*)publicstructSafetySetting:Sendable
    extensionSafetySetting:Encodable
  • Categories describing the potential harm a piece of content may pose.

    Declaration

    Swift

    @available(iOS15.0,macOS12.0,tvOS15.0,watchOS8.0,*)publicstructHarmCategory:CodableProtoEnum,Hashable,Sendable
  • The model’s response to a count tokens request.

    Declaration

    Swift

    @available(iOS15.0,macOS12.0,tvOS15.0,watchOS8.0,*)publicstructCountTokensResponse
    extensionCountTokensResponse:Decodable
  • An aspect ratio for images generated by Imagen.

    To specify an aspect ratio for generated images, setaspectRatio inyourImagenGenerationConfig. See theClouddocumentationfor more details and examples of the supported aspect ratios.

    Declaration

    Swift

    @available(iOS15.0,macOS12.0,tvOS15.0,watchOS8.0,*)publicstructImagenAspectRatio:Sendable
  • Configuration options for generating images with Imagen.

    SeeParameters for Imagenmodels tolearn about parameters available for use with Imagen models, including how to configure them.

    Declaration

    Swift

    @available(iOS15.0,macOS12.0,tvOS15.0,watchOS8.0,*)publicstructImagenGenerationConfig
  • A response from a request to generate images with Imagen.

    The type placeholderT is an image type; this is currently always anImagenInlineImage.

    This type is returned from:

    Declaration

    Swift

    @available(iOS15.0,macOS12.0,tvOS15.0,watchOS8.0,*)publicstructImagenGenerationResponse<T>
    extensionImagenGenerationResponse:DecodablewhereT:Decodable
  • An image format for images generated by Imagen.

    To specify an image format for generated images, setimageFormat inyourImagenGenerationConfig. See theClouddocumentationfor more details.

    Declaration

    Swift

    @available(iOS15.0,macOS12.0,tvOS15.0,watchOS8.0,*)publicstructImagenImageFormat
  • An error that occurs when image generation fails due to all generated images being blocked.

    The images may have been blocked due to the specifiedImagenSafetyFilterLevel, theImagenPersonFilterLevel, or filtering included in the model. These filter levels may beadjusted in yourImagenSafetySettings. See theResponsible AI and usage guidelines forImagenfor more details.

    Declaration

    Swift

    publicstructImagenImagesBlockedError:Error
    extensionImagenImagesBlockedError:CustomNSError
  • An image generated by Imagen, represented as inline data.

    Declaration

    Swift

    @available(iOS15.0,macOS12.0,tvOS15.0,watchOS8.0,*)publicstructImagenInlineImage
    extensionImagenInlineImage:Equatable
    extensionImagenInlineImage:Decodable
  • A filter level controlling whether generation of images containing people or faces is allowed.

    See thepersonGenerationdocumentation for more details.

    Declaration

    Swift

    @available(iOS15.0,macOS12.0,tvOS15.0,watchOS8.0,*)publicstructImagenPersonFilterLevel:ProtoEnum
  • A filter level controlling how aggressively to filter sensitive content.

    Text prompts provided as inputs and images (generated or uploaded) through Imagen on Vertex AIare assessed against a list of safety filters, which include ‘harmful categories’ (for example,violence,sexual,derogatory, andtoxic). This filter level controls how aggressively tofilter out potentially harmful content from responses. See thesafetySettingdocumentation and theResponsible AI and usageguidelinesfor more details.

    Declaration

    Swift

    @available(iOS15.0,macOS12.0,tvOS15.0,watchOS8.0,*)publicstructImagenSafetyFilterLevel:ProtoEnum,Sendable
  • Settings for controlling the aggressiveness of filtering out sensitive content.

    See theResponsible AI and usageguidelinesfor more details.

    Declaration

    Swift

    @available(iOS15.0,macOS12.0,tvOS15.0,watchOS8.0,*)publicstructImagenSafetySettings
  • A text part containing a string value.

    Declaration

    Swift

    @available(iOS15.0,macOS12.0,tvOS15.0,watchOS8.0,*)publicstructTextPart:Part
  • A data part that is provided inline in requests.

    Data provided as an inline data part is encoded as base64 and included directly (inline) in therequest. For large files, seeFileDataPart which references content by URI instead ofincluding the data in the request.

    Important

    Only small files can be sent as inline data because of limits on total requestsizes; seeinput files and requirements for more details and size limits.

    Declaration

    Swift

    @available(iOS15.0,macOS12.0,tvOS15.0,watchOS8.0,*)publicstructInlineDataPart:Part
  • File data stored in Cloud Storage for Firebase, referenced by URI.

    Declaration

    Swift

    @available(iOS15.0,macOS12.0,tvOS15.0,watchOS8.0,*)publicstructFileDataPart:Part
  • A predicted function call returned from the model.

    Declaration

    Swift

    @available(iOS15.0,macOS12.0,tvOS15.0,watchOS8.0,*)publicstructFunctionCallPart:Part
  • Result output from a function call.

    Contains a string representing theFunctionDeclaration.name and a structured JSON objectcontaining any output from the function is used as context to the model. This should contain theresult of aFunctionCallPart made based on model prediction.

    Declaration

    Swift

    @available(iOS15.0,macOS12.0,tvOS15.0,watchOS8.0,*)publicstructFunctionResponsePart:Part
  • Represents the different types, or modalities, of data that a model can produce as output.

    To configure the desired output modalities for model requests, set theresponseModalitiesparameter when initializing aGenerationConfig. See themultimodalresponsesdocumentation for more details.

    Important

    Support for each response modality, or combination of modalities, depends on themodel.

    Declaration

    Swift

    @available(iOS15.0,macOS12.0,tvOS15.0,watchOS8.0,*)publicstructResponseModality:EncodableProtoEnum,Sendable

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Last updated 2025-04-21 UTC.