// Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be // found in the LICENSE file. #ifndef CONTENT_PUBLIC_BROWSER_USER_METRICS_H_ #define CONTENT_PUBLIC_BROWSER_USER_METRICS_H_ #include #include "base/callback.h" #include "content/common/content_export.h" namespace content { // This module provides some helper functions for logging actions tracked by // the user metrics system. // UserMetricsAction exist purely to standardize on the paramters passed to // UserMetrics. That way, our toolset can scan the sourcecode reliable for // constructors and extract the associated string constants struct UserMetricsAction { const char* str_; explicit UserMetricsAction(const char* str) : str_(str) {} }; // Record that the user performed an action. // "Action" here means a user-generated event: // good: "Reload", "CloseTab", and "IMEInvoked" // not good: "SSLDialogShown", "PageLoaded", "DiskFull" // We use this to gather anonymized information about how users are // interacting with the browser. // WARNING: In calls to this function, UserMetricsAction and a // string literal parameter must be on the same line, e.g. // content::RecordAction( // content::UserMetricsAction("my extremely long action name")); // This ensures that our processing scripts can associate this action's hash // with its metric name. Therefore, it will be possible to retrieve the metric // name from the hash later on. // // Once a new recorded action is added, run // tools/metrics/actions/extract_actions.py --hash // to generate a new mapping of [action hashes -> metric names] and send it // out for review to be updated. // // For more complicated situations (like when there are many different // possible actions), see RecordComputedAction. CONTENT_EXPORT void RecordAction(const UserMetricsAction& action); // This function has identical input and behavior to RecordAction, but is // not automatically found by the action-processing scripts. It can be used // when it's a pain to enumerate all possible actions, but if you use this // you need to also update the rules for extracting known actions in // tools/metrics/actions/extract_actions.py. CONTENT_EXPORT void RecordComputedAction(const std::string& action); // Called with the action string. typedef base::Callback ActionCallback; // Add/remove action callbacks (see above). CONTENT_EXPORT void AddActionCallback(const ActionCallback& callback); CONTENT_EXPORT void RemoveActionCallback(const ActionCallback& callback); } // namespace content #endif // CONTENT_PUBLIC_BROWSER_USER_METRICS_H_