1587838 - Add an expiry to custom pings

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Data Platform and Tools :: Glean: SDK, defect, P3)

Description

[Jan-Erik Rediger [:janerik]]

We might want custom pings to have an explicit expiry just the same as metrics do.
This is mentioned in the docs:

In addition to these parameters, pings also support the parameters related to data review and expiration defined in common metric parameters: [...]

but was never implemented.

Comment 1

[Jan-Erik Rediger [:janerik]]

See also https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Dtqt2o7FC6SZ-vMrMBVe6HJdh0M26Hg3rIC9hfxn-40/edit#

Comment 2

[Michael Droettboom [:mdroettboom]]

I'd say we should carefully discuss this before implementing this. See bug 1548129.

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The concept of "disabled" or "expired" pings might have other implications and open up other bugs. For example, what if we collect more than 500 events on a disabled ping. Would they ever be cleared, or just fill up disk indefinitely?
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