// Copyright (c) 2010 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 CHROME_BROWSER_METRICS_USER_METRICS_H_ #define CHROME_BROWSER_METRICS_USER_METRICS_H_ #pragma once #include class Profile; // 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) {} }; class UserMetrics { public: // 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: Call this function exactly like this: // UserMetrics::RecordAction(UserMetricsAction("foo bar")); // (all on one line and with the metric string literal [no variables]) // because otherwise our processing scripts won't pick up on new actions. // // Once a new recorded action is added, run chrome/tools/extract_actions.py // 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. // // TODO(semenzato): |profile| isn't actually used---should switch all calls // to the version without it. static void RecordAction(const UserMetricsAction& action, Profile* profile); // 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 // chrome/tools/extract_actions.py. static void RecordComputedAction(const std::string& action, Profile* profile); static void RecordAction(const UserMetricsAction& action); static void RecordComputedAction(const std::string& action); private: static void Record(const char *action, Profile *profile); static void Record(const char *action); static void CallRecordOnUI(const std::string& action); }; #endif // CHROME_BROWSER_METRICS_USER_METRICS_H_