public java.lang.String getResource() {
      java.lang.Object ref = resource_;
      if (!(ref instanceof java.lang.String)) {
        com.google.protobuf.ByteString bs = (com.google.protobuf.ByteString) ref;
        java.lang.String s = bs.toStringUtf8();
        resource_ = s;
        return s;
      } else {
        return (java.lang.String) ref;
      }
    }
<pre>
The resource path for the target of the operation.
</pre>

<code>string resource = 3;</code>

@return The resource.
java-speech/proto-google-cloud-speech-v2/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/speech/v2/OperationMetadata.java