public java.lang.String getParent() {
      java.lang.Object ref = parent_;
      if (!(ref instanceof java.lang.String)) {
        com.google.protobuf.ByteString bs = (com.google.protobuf.ByteString) ref;
        java.lang.String s = bs.toStringUtf8();
        parent_ = s;
        return s;
      } else {
        return (java.lang.String) ref;
      }
    }
<pre>
Required. The resource name of the location (region) to query for
network policies. Resource names are schemeless URIs that follow the
conventions in https://cloud.google.com/apis/design/resource_names. For
example: `projects/my-project/locations/us-central1`
</pre>

<code>
string parent = 1 [(.google.api.field_behavior) = REQUIRED, (.google.api.resource_reference) = { ... }
</code>

@return The parent.
java-vmwareengine/proto-google-cloud-vmwareengine-v1/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/vmwareengine/v1/ListNetworkPoliciesRequest.java