Cloud Address Verification API

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Address-Level Properties and Element-Level Properties

You can set standardization policies at the level of the complete address and at the level of discrete address elements. You can set both property types. Element-level properties take precedence over address-level properties.

The following table describes the standardization properties:

PropertyName	Description	Set at Address Level	Set at Element Level
AliasHandling	Specifies how to handle alias names.	Yes	Yes
Casing	Specifies the character case.	Yes	Yes
CountryCodeType	Spcifies the ISO country code to use for country data.	Yes	No
CountryNameLanguage	Spcifies the language in which to return the country name.	Yes	No
DescriptorLength	Specifies whether to abbreviate street and directional descriptors.	Yes	Yes
FormatWithCountry	Specifies whether to include the country name in the output.	Yes	No
MaxItemCount	Specifies the maximum number of address lines that an address element can contain.	No	Yes
MaxItemLength	Specifies the maximum number of characters that an output field can contain.	Yes	Yes
PreferredLanguage	Specifies a list of one or more languages in which Address Verification will return the output address data.	Yes	No
PreferredScript	Specifies the character set in which Address Verification will return the output address data.	Yes	No
StandardizeInvalidAddresses	Specifies that Address Verification standardizes elements in an address that returns I as a Process Status score.	Yes	No