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      1 // Copyright 2014 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
      2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
      3 // found in the LICENSE file.
      4 
      5 #ifndef BASE_METRICS_USER_METRICS_H_
      6 #define BASE_METRICS_USER_METRICS_H_
      7 
      8 #include <string>
      9 
     10 #include "base/base_export.h"
     11 #include "base/callback.h"
     12 #include "base/metrics/user_metrics_action.h"
     13 #include "base/single_thread_task_runner.h"
     14 
     15 namespace base {
     16 
     17 // This module provides some helper functions for logging actions tracked by
     18 // the user metrics system.
     19 
     20 // For best practices on deciding when to emit a user action, see
     21 // https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/HEAD/tools/metrics/actions/README.md
     22 
     23 // Record that the user performed an action.
     24 // This function must be called after the task runner has been set with
     25 // SetRecordActionTaskRunner().
     26 //
     27 // "Action" here means a user-generated event:
     28 //   good: "Reload", "CloseTab", and "IMEInvoked"
     29 //   not good: "SSLDialogShown", "PageLoaded", "DiskFull"
     30 // We use this to gather anonymized information about how users are
     31 // interacting with the browser.
     32 // WARNING: In calls to this function, UserMetricsAction should be followed by a
     33 // string literal parameter and not a variable e.g.
     34 //   RecordAction(UserMetricsAction("my action name"));
     35 // This ensures that our processing scripts can associate this action's hash
     36 // with its metric name. Therefore, it will be possible to retrieve the metric
     37 // name from the hash later on.
     38 //
     39 // Once a new recorded action is added, run
     40 //   tools/metrics/actions/extract_actions.py
     41 // to add the metric to actions.xml, then update the <owner>s and <description>
     42 // sections. Make sure to include the actions.xml file when you upload your code
     43 // for review!
     44 //
     45 // For more complicated situations (like when there are many different
     46 // possible actions), see RecordComputedAction().
     47 BASE_EXPORT void RecordAction(const UserMetricsAction& action);
     48 
     49 // This function has identical input and behavior to RecordAction(), but is
     50 // not automatically found by the action-processing scripts.  It can be used
     51 // when it's a pain to enumerate all possible actions, but if you use this
     52 // you need to also update the rules for extracting known actions in
     53 // tools/metrics/actions/extract_actions.py.
     54 // This function must be called after the task runner has been set with
     55 // SetRecordActionTaskRunner().
     56 BASE_EXPORT void RecordComputedAction(const std::string& action);
     57 
     58 // Called with the action string.
     59 typedef Callback<void(const std::string&)> ActionCallback;
     60 
     61 // Add/remove action callbacks (see above).
     62 // These functions must be called after the task runner has been set with
     63 // SetRecordActionTaskRunner().
     64 BASE_EXPORT void AddActionCallback(const ActionCallback& callback);
     65 BASE_EXPORT void RemoveActionCallback(const ActionCallback& callback);
     66 
     67 // Set the task runner on which to record actions.
     68 BASE_EXPORT void SetRecordActionTaskRunner(
     69     scoped_refptr<SingleThreadTaskRunner> task_runner);
     70 
     71 }  // namespace base
     72 
     73 #endif  // BASE_METRICS_USER_METRICS_H_
     74