1364898 - Generate process enums & strings from Processes.yaml

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1361661

(Toolkit :: Telemetry, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Georg Fritzsche [:gfritzsche]]

- use Processes.yaml to specify:
  - the payload processes names
  - "internal" enum names
  - (also the valid record_in_processes names?)
- generate headers with enums and strings at build time
- refactor histograms/scalars/events to use these common headers

Comment 1

[Georg Fritzsche [:gfritzsche]]

Attachment: WIP, incomplete

Comment 2

[Georg Fritzsche [:gfritzsche]]

(In reply to Georg Fritzsche [:gfritzsche] from comment #0)
> - use Processes.yaml to specify:
>   - the payload processes names
>   - "internal" enum names
>   - (also the valid record_in_processes names?)
> - generate headers with enums and strings at build time
> - refactor histograms/scalars/events to use these common headers

Also:
The C++-to-JS serializations can already use the right payload names (or look them up in a single table), so we could remove the hardcoded name mappings from TelemetrySession.jsm and aboutTelemetry.js.

Comment 3

[Chris H-C :chutten]

Looks like this was taken care of in bug 1361661 ?

Evidence: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/__GENERATED__/toolkit/components/telemetry/TelemetryProcessData.h