The name of the service. In general this will be GAPIC generated service
name StubSettings#getServiceName(). However, in some cases, when the GAPIC
generated service is wrapped, this will be overridden to specify the manually written
wrapper's name.
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Pre-GA libraries might have limited support,\n| and changes to pre-GA libraries might not be compatible with other pre-GA versions.\n| For more information, see the\n[launch stage descriptions](/products#product-launch-stages). \n\n public abstract class MethodName\n\nA value class to represent the name of the RPC method in an [ApiTracer](/java/docs/reference/gax/latest/com.google.api.gax.tracing.ApiTracer). \n\nInheritance\n-----------\n\n[java.lang.Object](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html) \\\u003e MethodName \n\nInherited Members\n-----------------\n\n[Object.clone()](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html#clone--) \n[Object.equals(Object)](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html#equals-java.lang.Object-) \n[Object.finalize()](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html#finalize--) \n[Object.getClass()](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html#getClass--) \n[Object.hashCode()](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html#hashCode--) \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.toString()](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/lang/Object.html#toString--) \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-)\n\nStatic Methods\n--------------\n\n### of(String serviceName, String methodName)\n\n public static MethodName of(String serviceName, String methodName)\n\nCreates a new instance of the RPC method name.\n\nConstructors\n------------\n\n### MethodName()\n\n public MethodName()\n\nMethods\n-------\n\n### getMethodName()\n\n public abstract String getMethodName()\n\nThe name of the logical operation being traced. ie. 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