1505395 - Add support for gathering telemetry from other libraries

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Toolkit :: Telemetry, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Alessio Placitelli [:Dexter]]

Other libraries in android-components might want to push their own telemetry to glean, having it take care of the assembly and the delivery of pings.

This bug is about investigating this possibility, kicking off a document to gather the requirements

Comment 1

[Michael Droettboom [:mdroettboom]]

:tlong made a good point elsewhere: Won't the libraries have to either try and initialize, or wait for initialization before they can do anything with Glean? I know that the init function throws an IllegalStateException but is that going to be an issue for a consuming application/library? I know that it can be handled with a try but that seems like a harsh way to indicate that the library is already initialized. Also, what happens if a library tries to initialize with a different configuration?

I would summarize this as: Make sure initialization is as straightforward and fool-proof as possible in light of the new multiple-libraries-using-glean-together world.

Comment 2

[Michael Droettboom [:mdroettboom]]

Attachment: GitHub Pull Request

Comment 3

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/73b49e98a010
[components] 1505395: Add a third-party test library to samples-glean