// Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be // found in the LICENSE file. syntax = "proto2"; option optimize_for = LITE_RUNTIME; package variations; // This defines the Protocol Buffer representation of a Chrome Variations study // as sent to clients of the Variations server. // // Next tag: 13 message Study { // The name of the study. Should not contain spaces or special characters. // Ex: "my_study" required string name = 1; // DEPRECATED: Prefer end_date instead. // The expiry date of the study in Unix time format. (Seconds since midnight // January 1, 1970 UTC). See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time // // A study that has expired will be disabled, and users will be assigned // groups based on the default_experiment_name. This will take precedence over // a corresponding hardcoded field trial in the client. // // Ex: 1330893974 (corresponds to 2012-03-04 20:46:14Z) optional int64 expiry_date = 3; // Consistency setting for a study. enum Consistency { SESSION = 0; // Can't change within a session. PERMANENT = 1; // Can't change for a given user. } // Consistency setting for this study. Optional - defaults to SESSION. // Ex: PERMANENT optional Consistency consistency = 7 [default = SESSION]; // Name of the experiment that gets the default experience. This experiment // must be included in the list below. If not specified, a generic default // experiment name is used. // Ex: "default" optional string default_experiment_name = 8; // An experiment within the study. // // Next tag: 14 message Experiment { // A named parameter value for this experiment. // // Next tag: 3 message Param { // The name of the parameter. optional string name = 1; // The value of the parameter. optional string value = 2; } // The name of the experiment within the study. // Ex: "bucketA" required string name = 1; // The cut of the total probability taken for this experiment (the x in // x / N, where N is the sum of all x’s). Ex: "50" required uint32 probability_weight = 2; // Optional id used to uniquely identify this experiment for Google web // properties. optional uint64 google_web_experiment_id = 3; // Optional id used to allow this experiment to trigger experimental // behavior on Google web properties. optional uint64 google_web_trigger_experiment_id = 8; // Optional id used to uniquely identify this experiment for Chrome Sync. optional uint64 chrome_sync_experiment_id = 10; // Specifies the feature association parameters for this experiment group. // // Next tag: 5 message FeatureAssociation { // Optional list of features to enable when this experiment is selected. // Command-line overrides take precedence over this setting. No feature // listed here should exist in the |disable_feature| list. repeated string enable_feature = 1; // Optional list of features to disable when this experiment is selected. // Command-line overrides take precedence over this setting. No feature // listed here should exist in the |enable_feature| list. repeated string disable_feature = 2; // Similar to |forcing_flag|, this is an optional name of a feature which // will cause this experiment to be activated, if that feature is enabled // from the command-line. Experiment with this set are not eligible for // selection via a random dice roll. // Mutually exclusive with |forcing_flag|, |forcing_feature_off| or // having a non-zero |probability_weight|. optional string forcing_feature_on = 3; // Similar to |forcing_flag|, this is an optional name of a feature which // will cause this experiment to be activated, if that feature is disabled // from the command-line. Experiment with this set are not eligible for // selection via a random dice roll. // Mutually exclusive with |forcing_flag|, |forcing_feature_on| or having // a non-zero |probability_weight|. optional string forcing_feature_off = 4; } optional FeatureAssociation feature_association = 12; // Optional name of a Chrome flag that, when present, causes this experiment // to be forced. If the forcing_flag field is set, users will not be // assigned to this experiment unless that flag is present in Chrome's // command line. // Mutually exclusive with |forcing_feature_on|, |forcing_feature_off| or // having a non-zero |probability_weight|. optional string forcing_flag = 5; // Parameter values for this experiment. repeated Param param = 6; enum Type { // Regular experiment group. This is the default value and can be omitted. NORMAL = 0; // Changes to this experiment group are ignored for the purposes of // kill-switch triggering. Included to allow the flexibility to not // trigger this logic for specific cases (e.g. a group rename without // any functionality changes). IGNORE_CHANGE = 1; // This is a kill-switch group that should be killed at "best effort" // priority, e.g. with a hot dog menu badge. The experiment must have a // probability_weight of 0. KILL_BEST_EFFORT = 2; // This is a kill-switch group that should be killed with "critical" // priority. Depending on platform this may result in showing a // non-dismissible restart prompt with a timer. This should only be used // in very serious emergency circumstances. The experiment must have a // probability_weight of 0. KILL_CRITICAL = 3; } optional Type type = 7 [default = NORMAL]; // A UI string to override, and the new value to use. message OverrideUIString { // The first 32 bits of the MD5 hash digest of the resource name to // override. // e.g. Hash("IDS_BOOKMARK_BAR_UNDO") optional fixed32 name_hash = 1; // The new value of the string being overridden. // e.g. "Undo" optional string value = 2; } repeated OverrideUIString override_ui_string = 9; } // List of experiments in this study. This list should include the default / // control experiment. // // For example, to specify that 99% of users get the default behavior, while // 0.5% of users get experience "A" and 0.5% of users get experience "B", // specify the values below. // Ex: { "default": 990, "A": 5, "B": 5 } repeated Experiment experiment = 9; // Possible Chrome release channels. // See: http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel enum Channel { // UNKNOWN value is defined here for the benefit of code using this enum // type, but is not actually meant to be encoded in the protobuf. UNKNOWN = -1; CANARY = 0; DEV = 1; BETA = 2; STABLE = 3; } // Possible Chrome operating system platforms. enum Platform { PLATFORM_WINDOWS = 0; PLATFORM_MAC = 1; PLATFORM_LINUX = 2; PLATFORM_CHROMEOS = 3; PLATFORM_ANDROID = 4; PLATFORM_IOS = 5; } // Possible form factors Chrome is running on. enum FormFactor { // Chrome Desktop on Windows, Mac, Linux, or ChromeOS. DESKTOP = 0; // Phone-based mobile Chrome, e.g. an Android phone or iPhone. PHONE = 1; // Tablet-based mobile Chrome, e.g. an Android tablet or iPad. TABLET = 2; // ChromeOS running in single-app Kiosk mode. KIOSK = 3; } // Filtering criteria specifying whether this study is applicable to a given // Chrome instance. // // Next tag: 15 message Filter { // The start date of the study in Unix time format. (Seconds since midnight // January 1, 1970 UTC). See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time // Ex: 1330893974 (corresponds to 2012-03-04 20:46:14Z) optional int64 start_date = 1; // The end date of the study in Unix time format. (Seconds since midnight // January 1, 1970 UTC). See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time // Ex: 1330893974 (corresponds to 2012-03-04 20:46:14Z) // Mutually exclusive with expiry_date. The difference between end_date and // expiry_date is that, when end_date is past, the field trial will not be // created. When expiry_date is past, the trial is still created, but will // be disabled, causing it to select its default group. optional int64 end_date = 13; // The minimum Chrome version for this study, allowing a trailing '*' // character for pattern matching. Inclusive. (To check for a match, iterate // over each component checking >= until a * or end of string is reached.) // Optional - if not specified, there is no minimum version. // Ex: "17.0.963.46", "17.0.963.*", "17.*" optional string min_version = 2; // The maximum Chrome version for this study; same formatting as // |min_version| above. Inclusive. (To check for a match, iterate over each // component checking <= until a * or end of string is reached.) // Optional - if not specified, there is no maximum version. // Ex: "19.*" optional string max_version = 3; // List of channels that will receive this study. If omitted, the study // applies to all channels. // Ex: [BETA, STABLE] repeated Channel channel = 4; // List of platforms that will receive this study. If omitted, the study // applies to all platforms. // Ex: [PLATFORM_WINDOWS, PLATFORM_MAC] repeated Platform platform = 5; // List of locales that will receive this study. If omitted, the study // applies to all locales, unless |exclude_locale| is specified. Mutually // exclusive with |exclude_locale|. // Ex: ["en-US", "en-CA"] repeated string locale = 6; // List of locales that will be excluded from this study. If omitted, the // study applies to all locales unless |locale| is specified. Mutually // exclusive with |locale|. // Ex: ["en-US", "en-CA"] repeated string exclude_locale = 12; // List of form factors that will receive this study. If omitted, the study // applies to all form factors, unless |exclude_form_factor| is specified. // Mutually exclusive with |exclude_form_factor|. // Ex: [PHONE, TABLET] repeated FormFactor form_factor = 7; // List of form factors that will be excluded from this study. If omitted, // the study applies to all form factors unless |form_factor| is specified. // Mutually exclusive with |form_factor|. // Takes the same range of values as form_factor, e.g. [PHONE, TABLET]. repeated FormFactor exclude_form_factor = 14; // List of ChromeOS hardware classes that will receive this study. Each // entry is treated as a substring of the actual device hardware_class, // so "FOO" will match the client's hardware class "Device FOOBAR". If // omitted, the study applies to all hardware classes unless // |exclude_hardware_class| is specified. Mutually exclusive with // |exclude_hardware_class|. // An example might be "lumpy", "daisy", etc. repeated string hardware_class = 8; // List of ChromeOS hardware classes that will be excluded in this // study. Each entry is treated as a substring of the actual device // hardware_class, so "FOO" will match the client's hardware class // "Device FOOBAR". If omitted, the study applies to all hardware classes // unless |hardware_class| is specified. Mutually exclusive with // |hardware_class|. // An example might be "lumpy", "daisy", etc. repeated string exclude_hardware_class = 9; // List of lowercase ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes that will receive this // study. If omitted, the study applies to all countries unless // |exclude_country| is specified. Mutually exclusive with // |exclude_country|. // Ex: ["in", "us"] repeated string country = 10; // List of lowercase ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country codes that will be excluded // from this study. If omitted, the study applies to all countries unless // |country| is specified. Mutually exclusive with |country|. // Ex: ["in", "us"] repeated string exclude_country = 11; } // Filtering criteria for this study. A study that is filtered out for a given // client is equivalent to that study not being sent at all. optional Filter filter = 10; // Randomization seed to be used when |consistency| is set to PERMANENT. If // not specified, randomization will be done using the trial name. optional uint32 randomization_seed = 11; // Specifies whether the study starts as active initially, or whether it // requires the client to query its state before it is marked as active. enum ActivationType { // The study will be activated when its state is queried by the client. // This is recommended for most studies that include client code. ACTIVATION_EXPLICIT = 0; // The study will be automatically activated when it is created. This // is recommended for studies that do not have any client logic. ACTIVATION_AUTO = 1; } // Activation type for this study. Defaults to ACTIVATION_EXPLICIT if omitted. optional ActivationType activation_type = 12; }