1249498 - Fetch UUIDs from users properly

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Shield :: General, defect)

Description

[Osmose [:osmose, :mkelly]]

Current the client class in Normandy has a "user_id" attribute used in sampling with a comment "TODO: Eventually this will be something from the request."

We should probably figure out how we're fetching this from the self-repair endpoint and from the addon, and fetch it properly.

Comment 1

[Osmose [:osmose, :mkelly]]

We've decided to handle this pre-addon by generating a random UUID on the client and storing it in localStorage within the self-repair iframe. We'll POST it along with the locale in the request to fetch recipes. When the addon lands, it will also POST the client ID, but it will fetch it from telemetry instead.

Comment 2

[[github robot]]

Commit pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/normandy

https://github.com/mozilla/normandy/commit/2706a1d63dff2e8c5d9a322bf02b2a3548d002a8
Read user_id from request data, if provided

Fixes bug 1249498