glean-sdk 26.0.0

Mozilla's Glean Telemetry SDK: The Machine that Goes 'Ping!'

Glean SDK

Documentation

All documentation is available online:

The Glean SDK Book

Overview

Refer to the documentation for using and developing the Glean SDK.

For an overview of Glean beyond just the SDK, see the section in the Firefox data docs.

The code in this repository is organized as follows:

• ./glean-core/ contains the source for the low-level Rust library.
• ./glean-core/ffi contains the mapping into a C FFI.
• ./glean-core/android contains the Kotlin bindings for use by Android applications.
• ./glean-core/ios contains the Swift bindings for use by iOS applications.
• ./glean-core/python contains Python bindings.

Note: The Glean SDK requires at least Rust 1.41.0. Older versions are untested.

Contact

To contact us you can:

• Find us in the #glean channel on chat.mozilla.org.
• To report issues or request changes, file a bug in Bugzilla in Data Platform & Tools :: Glean: SDK.
• Send an email to [e-mail].
• The Glean Core team is: :dexter, :janerik, :mdroettboom, :travis_, :gfritzsche, :chutten, :brizental.

Credits

The Glean logo artwork was contributed by Diana Ciufo. It's licensed under MPL.

License

This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/

Unreleased changes

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v26.0.0 (2020-03-27)

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• General:
  • The version of glean_parser has been updated to 1.19.0:
    • Breaking change: The regular expression used to validate labels is stricter and more correct.
    • Add more information about pings to markdown documentation:
      • State whether the ping includes client id;
      • Add list of data review links;
      • Add list of related bugs links.
    • glean_parser now makes it easier to write external translation functions for different language targets.
    • BUGFIX: glean_parser now works on 32-bit Windows.
• Android:
  • gradlew clean will no longer remove the Miniconda installation in ~/.gradle/glean. Therefore clean can be used without reinstalling Miniconda afterward every time.
• Python:
  • Breaking Change: The glean.util and glean.hardware modules, which were unintentionally public, have been made private.
  • Most Glean work and I/O is now done on its own worker thread. This brings the parallelism Python in line with the other platforms.
  • The timing distribution, memory distribution, string list, labeled boolean and labeled string metric types are now supported in Python (#762, #763, #765, #766)

v25.1.0 (2020-02-26)

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• Python:
  • The Boolean, Datetime and Timespan metric types are now supported in Python (#731, #732, #737)
  • Make public, document and test the debugging features (#733)

v25.0.0 (2020-02-17)

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• General:
  • ping_type is not included in the ping_info any more (#653), the pipeline takes the value from the submission URL.
  • The version of glean_parser has been upgraded to 1.18.2:
    • Breaking Change (Java API) Have the metrics names in Java match the names in Kotlin. See Bug 1588060.
    • The reasons a ping are sent are now included in the generated markdown documentation.
• Android:
  • The Glean.initialize method runs mostly off the main thread (#672).
  • Labels in labeled metrics now have a correct, and slightly stricter, regular expression. See label format for more information.
• iOS:
  • The baseline ping will now include reason codes that indicate why it was submitted. If an unclean shutdown is detected (e.g. due to force-close), this ping will be sent at startup with reason: dirty_startup.
  • Per Bug 1614785, the clearing of application lifetime metrics now occurs after the metrics ping is sent in order to preserve values meant to be included in the startup metrics ping.
  • initialize() now performs most of its work in a background thread.
• Python:
  • When the pre-init task queue overruns, this is now recorded in the metric glean.error.preinit_tasks_overflow.
  • glinter warnings are printed to stderr when loading metrics.yaml and pings.yaml files.

v24.2.0 (2020-02-11)

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• General:
  • Add locale to client_info section.
  • Deprecation Warning Since locale is now in the client_info section, the one in the baseline ping (glean.baseline.locale) is redundant and will be removed by the end of the quarter.
  • Drop the Glean handle and move state into glean-core (#664)
  • If an experiment includes no extra fields, it will no longer include {"extra": null} in the JSON payload.
  • Support for ping reason codes was added.
  • The metrics ping will now include reason codes that indicate why it was submitted.
  • The version of glean_parser has been upgraded to 1.17.3
• Android:
  • Collections performed before initialization (preinit tasks) are now dispatched off the main thread during initialization.
  • The baseline ping will now include reason codes that indicate why it was submitted. If an unclean shutdown is detected (e.g. due to force-close), this ping will be sent at startup with reason: dirty_startup.
• iOS:
  • Collections performed before initialization (preinit tasks) are now dispatched off the main thread and not awaited during initialization.
  • Added recording of glean.error.preinit_tasks_overflow to report when the preinit task queue overruns, leading to data loss. See bug 1609734

v24.1.0 (2020-01-16)

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• General:
  • Stopping a non started measurement in a timing distribution will now be reported as an invalid_state error.
• Android:
  • A new metric glean.error.preinit_tasks_overflow was added to report when the preinit task queue overruns, leading to data loss. See bug 1609482

v24.0.0 (2020-01-14)

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• General:
  • Breaking Change An enableUpload parameter has been added to the initialize() function. This removes the requirement to call setUploadEnabled() prior to calling the initialize() function.
• Android:
  • The metrics ping scheduler will now only send metrics pings while the application is running. The application will no longer "wake up" at 4am using the Work Manager.
  • The code for migrating data from Glean SDK before version 19 was removed.
  • When using the GleanTestLocalServer rule in instrumented tests, pings are immediately flushed by the WorkManager and will reach the test endpoint as soon as possible.
• Python:
  • The Python bindings now support Python 3.5 - 3.7.
  • The Python bindings are now distributed as a wheel on Linux, macOS and Windows.

v23.0.1 (2020-01-08)

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• Android:
  • BUGFIX: The Glean Gradle plugin will now work if an app or library doesn't have a metrics.yaml or pings.yaml file.
• iOS:
  • The released iOS binaries are now built with Xcode 11.3.

v23.0.0 (2020-01-07)

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• Python bindings:
  • Support for events and UUID metrics was added.
• Android:
  • The Glean Gradle Plugin correctly triggers docs and API updates when registry files change, without requiring them to be deleted.
  • parseISOTimeString has been made 4x faster. This had an impact on Glean migration and initialization.
  • Metrics with lifetime: application are now cleared when the application is started, after startup Glean SDK pings are generated.
• All platforms:
  • The public method PingType.send() (in all platforms) have been deprecated and renamed to PingType.submit().
  • Rename deletion_request ping to deletion-request ping after glean_parser update

v22.1.0 (2019-12-17)

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• Add InvalidOverflow error to TimingDistributions (#583)

v22.0.0 (2019-12-05)

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• Add option to defer ping lifetime metric persistence (#530)
• Add a crate for the nice control API (#542)
• Pending deletion_request pings are resent on start (#545)

v21.3.0 (2019-12-03)

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• Timers are reset when disabled. That avoids recording timespans across disabled/enabled toggling (#495).
• Add a new flag to pings: send_if_empty (#528)
• Upgrade glean_parser to v1.12.0
• Implement the deletion request ping in Glean (#526)

v21.2.0 (2019-11-21)

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• All platforms

  • The experiments API is no longer ignored before the Glean SDK initialized. Calls are recorded and played back once the Glean SDK is initialized.

  • String list items were being truncated to 20, rather than 50, bytes when using .set() (rather than .add()). This has been corrected, but it may result in changes in the sent data if using string list items longer than 20 bytes.

v21.1.1 (2019-11-20)

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• Android:

  • Use the LifecycleEventObserver interface, rather than the DefaultLifecycleObserver interface, since the latter isn't compatible with old SDK targets.

v21.1.0 (2019-11-20)

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• Android:

  • Two new metrics were added to investigate sending of metrics and baseline pings. See bug 1597980 for more information.

  • Glean's two lifecycle observers were refactored to avoid the use of reflection.

• All platforms:

  • Timespans will now not record an error if stopping after setting upload enabled to false.

v21.0.0 (2019-11-18)

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• Android:

  • The GleanTimerId can now be accessed in Java and is no longer a typealias.

  • Fixed a bug where the metrics ping was getting scheduled twice on startup.

• All platforms

  • Bumped glean_parser to version 1.11.0.

v20.2.0 (2019-11-11)

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• In earlier 20.x.x releases, the version of glean-ffi was incorrectly built against the wrong version of glean-core.

v20.1.0 (2019-11-11)

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• The version of Glean is included in the Glean Gradle plugin.

• When constructing a ping, events are now sorted by their timestamp. In practice, it rarely happens that event timestamps are unsorted to begin with, but this guards against a potential race condition and incorrect usage of the lower-level API.

v20.0.0 (2019-11-11)

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• Glean users should now use a Gradle plugin rather than a Gradle script. (#421) See integrating with the build system docs for more information.

• In Kotlin, metrics that can record errors now have a new testing method, testGetNumRecordedErrors. (#401)

v19.1.0 (2019-10-29)

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• Fixed a crash calling start on a timing distribution metric before Glean is initialized. Timings are always measured, but only recorded when upload is enabled (#400)
• BUGFIX: When the Debug Activity is used to log pings, each ping is now logged only once (#407)
• New invalid state error, used in timespan recording (#230)
• Add an Android crash instrumentation walk-through (#399)
• Fix crashing bug by avoiding assert-printing in LMDB (#422)
• Upgrade dependencies, including rkv (#416)

v19.0.0 (2019-10-22)

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First stable release of Glean in Rust (aka glean-core). This is a major milestone in using a cross-platform implementation of Glean on the Android platform.

• Fix round-tripping of timezone offsets in dates (#392)
• Handle dynamic labels in coroutine tasks (#394)

v0.0.1-TESTING6 (2019-10-18)

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• Ignore dynamically stored labels if Glean is not initialized (#374)
• Make sure ProGuard doesn't remove Glean classes from the app (#380)
• Keep track of pings in all modes (#378)
• Add jnaTest dependencies to the forUnitTest JAR (#382)

v0.0.1-TESTING5 (2019-10-10)

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• Upgrade to NDK r20 (#365)

v0.0.1-TESTING4 (2019-10-09)

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• Take DST into account when converting a calendar into its items (#359)
• Include a macOS library in the forUnitTests builds (#358)
• Keep track of all registered pings in test mode (#363)

v0.0.1-TESTING3 (2019-10-08)

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• Allow configuration of Glean through the GleanTestRule
• Bump glean_parser version to 1.9.2

v0.0.1-TESTING2 (2019-10-07)

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• Include a Windows library in the forUnitTests builds

v0.0.1-TESTING1 (2019-10-02)

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General

First testing release.