1921976 - Create a method for accessing all ping types and current debug view tag and log pings to console values

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Data Platform and Tools :: Glean: SDK, task, P1)

Description

[Nicholas Poon [:Nick]]

Once Glean.setDebugViewTag is called, any pings from there on out will be collected. However, if the user disables and re-enables the debug menu, pings are still being collected but the UI will not show the current debug view tag even though it still "exists". To update the UI with the correct state, we would need a way to get these current values from the Glean API.

Looking at the desktop about:glean, it seems that it is able to retrieve the current debug view tag. We would want a way to retrieve this as well through the Glean API

Also, in the desktop about:glean, there is a dropdown for all the test ping types. Since this can be updated through updates to metrics.yaml manually, there should be a way to access this dropdown list of all the test ping types through the Glean API. This will enable users to submit test pings of all ping types without requiring a developer to manually add it to the tool

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Attachment: [mozilla/glean] Bug 1921976 - Adds methods for accessing Glean debug settings as well as the list of currently registered pings (#3004)