1349590 - Create Kinto-backed Switchboard client in Swift

Status: NEW

(Firefox for iOS :: General, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Stephan Leroux [:sleroux]]

Switchboard offers an existing client solution for downloading experiments from their server and parsing the result into bucket/experiment information. Since we're not using their privately-hosted solution, we'll need to replace most of the server logic to use our Kinto instance instead. Since the existing solution is written in Obj-C, needs heavy modification, and isn't that lengthy, we might as well write our own (based on a similar API) in Swift.

Example of how Android integrated with their Kinto instance can be found here:
https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/mobile/android/base/java/org/mozilla/gecko/switchboard

Comment 1

[Stephan Leroux [:sleroux]]

It's also worth mentioning that the existing Switchboard client has a lot third-party code for parsing JSON that we don't really need either

https://github.com/KeepSafe/Switchboard/tree/master/client/ios/SwitchboardSample/SwitchboardSample

Comment 2

[Stephan Leroux [:sleroux]]

What's left:

- Set up buckets on staging/production instances
- Adjust the experiment to be what we want. I just took the Android defaults for now - 50% opt in against the .Fennec bundle identifier (dev builds only)

Comment 3

[Stephan Leroux [:sleroux]]

Ignore Comment 2 - meant for https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1349585

Comment 4

[Mathieu Leplatre [:leplatrem]]

Sebastian, I have the feeling that this can be closed. As far as I understood you now have a client in FretBoard(android-components)

Comment 5

[Sebastian Kaspari (:sebastian; :pocmo)]

Yeah, that's correct for Android. This issue seems to be about iOS though.