FOG code organization

Modules of Project FOG

The diagram shows the different modules of Project FOG.

FOG control

This module is the glue between Firefox and Glean.

  • The code lives in toolkit/components/glean/src.

  • It is written in Rust.

  • The crate is named fog_control.

  • It is not published to crates.io.

  • It is not consumed by other Rust crates inside mozilla-central.

This module is responsible for

  • collecting and assembling the client information

  • configuring the Glean SDK via the Rust Language Binding

  • watching the Firefox Telemetry data upload preference (datareporting.healthreport.uploadEnabled)

  • scheduling builtin pings

  • controling ping upload workers

  • passing IPC buffers

It calls into glean (the Glean SDK Rust Language Binding) to:

  • configure and initialize Glean

  • toggle upload_enabled

  • get upload tasks

It calls into the firefox-on-glean crate to:

  • pass IPC buffers

  • record to its own metrics

FOG API

This module provides the user-facing API for Glean inside mozilla-central.

  • The code lives in toolkit/components/glean/api.

  • It is written in Rust.

  • The crate is named firefox-on-glean.

  • Though it is published to crates.io, that is merely so it can be used as an optional dependency for crates inside mozilla-central that need to ship outside of mozilla-central sometimes.

  • It can be consumed by other Rust crates inside mozilla-central for their Glean usage.

This module is responsible for

  • exposing the specific metric API in Rust

  • wrapping metric implementations for handling IPC

  • exposing FFI functionality to implement other language APIs on top. See also Adding a New Metric Type.

It calls into glean (the Glean SDK Rust Language Binding) for:

  • metric types (including pings)