[jbosstools-dev] Hooking up Fuse Tools and SwitchYard with usage tracking

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

On 11 Mar 2016, at 18:31, Brian Fitzpatrick wrote:

> Awesome. Thanks Max! Appreciate the guidance.

tip - if its the first time you are adding counting to a plugin for 
usage tracking
I recommend you ask Alexey, Fred or me to review it to catch too 
aggressive or too passive counting issues.

/max

>
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 10:23 AM, Max Rydahl Andersen 
> <manderse at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 11 Mar 2016, at 18:12, Brian Fitzpatrick wrote:
>>
>> When you say "Wizards should already be there as long as SY and Fuse 
>> depend
>> on the usage plug-in." what do you mean?
>>
>> hmm - just realised that is missing from the docs...pretty sure it 
>> was
>> there at some point.
>>
>> For basic enablement add dependency to: org.jboss.tools.usage like in
>> https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-server/blob/jbosstools-4.2.0.Beta1x/as/plugins/org.jboss.ide.eclipse.as.ui/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF#L67
>>
>> Can I interpret that as meaning if our tools ping for daily events as 
>> in
>> the example below, our wizard usage will already be recorded?
>>
>> Wizard usage will be recorded as soon as the usage reporter is 
>> installed
>> (and of course if the user said yes to be tracked)
>>
>> UsageReporter.getInstance().countEvent(eventType.event(label, 
>> value));
>>
>> If you have code like the above then you for sure should already be
>> covered for sure ;)
>>
>> /max
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 10:08 AM, Max Rydahl Andersen 
>> manderse at redhat.com
>> wrote:
>>
>> On 11 Mar 2016, at 18:01, Brian Fitzpatrick wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Back in January I received great help from Alexey and Max to help me 
>> take
>> a
>> look at the usage data we've been tracking for JBDS. It really helped 
>> get
>> some baseline numbers for ESB usage so we could justify deprecation 
>> of the
>> older tooling going forward (still supporting, just not actively 
>> updating,
>> which is how it's been for a few years now anyway).
>>
>> Now we'd like to hook SwitchYard and Fuse Tools wizards and editors 
>> up to
>> get them into the tracking data as well.
>>
>> Wizards should already be there as long as SY and Fuse depend on the 
>> usage
>> plugin.
>>
>> For editors you will need to send specific events.
>>
>> Do we have anything written up on how to use the frameworks for the 
>> usage
>>
>> tooling in JBDS? Or can you point me at some examples of how you've 
>> done
>> it
>> for wizards and editors in the main JBoss Tools code?
>>
>> Docs:
>>
>> https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-devdoc/blob/master/api/usage/usage_api.adoc
>>
>> Please be aware to not send a ping for every little thing - we don't 
>> want
>> to overload with data.
>>
>> But for example if you want to count the number of times the fuse 
>> editor
>> is opened you can do that with a daily event counter.
>>
>> To find examples - search for .countEvent() in JBoss Tools Server and 
>> I
>> think Forge has some too.
>>
>> /max
>> http://about.me/maxandersen
>>
>> /max
>> http://about.me/maxandersen
>>


/max
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