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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 
14 namespace base {
15 
16 // This module provides some helper functions for logging actions tracked by
17 // the user metrics system.
18 
19 // Record that the user performed an action.
20 // This method *must* be called from the main thread.
21 //
22 // "Action" here means a user-generated event:
23 //   good: "Reload", "CloseTab", and "IMEInvoked"
24 //   not good: "SSLDialogShown", "PageLoaded", "DiskFull"
25 // We use this to gather anonymized information about how users are
26 // interacting with the browser.
27 // WARNING: In calls to this function, UserMetricsAction and a
28 // string literal parameter must be on the same line, e.g.
29 //   RecordAction(UserMetricsAction("my extremely long action name"));
30 // This ensures that our processing scripts can associate this action's hash
31 // with its metric name. Therefore, it will be possible to retrieve the metric
32 // name from the hash later on.
33 //
34 // Once a new recorded action is added, run
35 //   tools/metrics/actions/extract_actions.py
36 // to add the metric to actions.xml, then update the <owner>s and <description>
37 // sections. Make sure to include the actions.xml file when you upload your code
38 // for review!
39 //
40 // For more complicated situations (like when there are many different
41 // possible actions), see RecordComputedAction.
42 BASE_EXPORT void RecordAction(const UserMetricsAction& action);
43 
44 // This function has identical input and behavior to RecordAction, but is
45 // not automatically found by the action-processing scripts.  It can be used
46 // when it's a pain to enumerate all possible actions, but if you use this
47 // you need to also update the rules for extracting known actions in
48 // tools/metrics/actions/extract_actions.py.
49 BASE_EXPORT void RecordComputedAction(const std::string& action);
50 
51 // Called with the action string.
52 typedef base::Callback<void(const std::string&)> ActionCallback;
53 
54 // Add/remove action callbacks (see above).
55 BASE_EXPORT void AddActionCallback(const ActionCallback& callback);
56 BASE_EXPORT void RemoveActionCallback(const ActionCallback& callback);
57 
58 }  // namespace base
59 
60 #endif  // BASE_METRICS_USER_METRICS_H_
61