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Return the preferred publication type of this metric. The preferred publication type of this metric indicates the preferred aggregate to publish for this metric, or `PublicationType::UNSPECIFIED` if there is no preference. Note that there is no uniform definition for how publishers will interpret this value; an `UNSPECIFIED` value generally indicates that the all the collected aggregates (total, count, minimum, and maximum value) should be published.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<balm_metricdescription.h>`

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xref:BloombergLP/balm/PublicationType/Value.adoc[PublicationType::Value]
preferredPublicationType() const;
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