xref: /frameworks/base/core/java/android/webkit/TracingController.java

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package android.webkit;

import android.annotation.CallbackExecutor;
import android.annotation.NonNull;
import android.annotation.Nullable;

import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.util.concurrent.Executor;

/**
 * Manages tracing of WebViews. In particular provides functionality for the app
 * to enable/disable tracing of parts of code and to collect tracing data.
 * This is useful for profiling performance issues, debugging and memory usage
 * analysis in production and real life scenarios.
 * <p>
 * The resulting trace data is sent back as a byte sequence in json format. This
 * file can be loaded in "chrome://tracing" for further analysis.
 * <p>
 * Example usage:
 * <pre class="prettyprint">
 * TracingController tracingController = TracingController.getInstance();
 * tracingController.start(new TracingConfig.Builder()
 *                  .addCategories(CATEGORIES_WEB_DEVELOPER).build());
 * ...
 * tracingController.stop(new FileOutputStream("trace.json"),
 *                        Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor());
 * </pre></p>
 */
public abstract class TracingController {

    /**
     * Returns the default TracingController instance. At present there is
     * only one TracingController instance for all WebView instances,
     * however this restriction may be relaxed in a future Android release.
     *
     * @return The default TracingController instance.
     */
    @NonNull
    public static TracingController getInstance() {
        return WebViewFactory.getProvider().getTracingController();
    }

    /**
     * Starts tracing all webviews. Depending on the trace mode in traceConfig
     * specifies how the trace events are recorded.
     *
     * For tracing modes {@link TracingConfig#RECORD_UNTIL_FULL} and
     * {@link TracingConfig#RECORD_CONTINUOUSLY} the events are recorded
     * using an internal buffer and flushed to the outputStream when
     * {@link #stop(OutputStream, Executor)} is called.
     *
     * @param tracingConfig Configuration options to use for tracing.
     * @throws IllegalStateException If the system is already tracing.
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException If the configuration is invalid (e.g.
     *         invalid category pattern or invalid tracing mode).
     */
    public abstract void start(@NonNull TracingConfig tracingConfig);

    /**
     * Stops tracing and flushes tracing data to the specified outputStream.
     *
     * The data is sent to the specified output stream in json format typically
     * in chunks by invoking {@link java.io.OutputStream#write(byte[])}. On completion
     * the {@link java.io.OutputStream#close()} method is called.
     *
     * @param outputStream The output stream the tracing data will be sent to. If null
     *                     the tracing data will be discarded.
     * @param executor The {@link java.util.concurrent.Executor} on which the
     *        outputStream {@link java.io.OutputStream#write(byte[])} and
     *        {@link java.io.OutputStream#close()} methods will be invoked.
     * @return False if the WebView framework was not tracing at the time of the call,
     *         true otherwise.
     */
    public abstract boolean stop(@Nullable OutputStream outputStream,
            @NonNull @CallbackExecutor Executor executor);

    /**
     * Returns whether the WebView framework is tracing.
     *
     * @return True if tracing is enabled.
     */
    public abstract boolean isTracing();

}