1875907 - Avoid a `TelemetryUtils` exception in background task mode

Status: ASSIGNED

(Firefox :: New Tab Page, enhancement)

Description

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

Right now, background tasks that use ASRouter will witness an exception in TelemetryUtils. It's been around forever and doesn't seem to be harmful, but we might as well avoid it if we can.

Comment 1

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

Attachment: WIP: Bug 1875907 - Avoid a `TelemetryUtils` exception in background task mode.

There's no browsing session and subsession in background task mode, so
avoid asking for session metadata and throwing an obscure date-parsing
exception.

Comment 2

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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Comment 3

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

No need to add severity. When DI team is ready, we'll get review on this or an alternate approach.

Comment 4

[Mimi Jung]

Hi Nick, looks like we have a review request for OMC on the bug, is this something still being worked on or is it safe to close the phabricator bug (or remove the OMC group reviewers)?

(Sorry for the ping on this out of the blue, we've been cleaning up our review requests during triage).

Comment 5

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

(In reply to Negin Sauermann from comment #4)

Hi Nick, looks like we have a review request for OMC on the bug, is this something still being worked on or is it safe to close the phabricator bug (or remove the OMC group reviewers)?

(Sorry for the ping on this out of the blue, we've been cleaning up our review requests during triage).

I've abandoned the revision; there's nothing pending on this.