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Experiment Annotation
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This API allows privileged JavaScript to annotate the :doc:`../data/environment` with any experiments a client is participating in.
The experiment annotations are sent with any ping that includes the :doc:`../data/environment` data.
The JS API
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Privileged JavaScript code can annotate experiments using the functions exposed by ``TelemetryEnvironment.sys.mjs``.
The following function adds an annotation to the environment for the provided ``id``, ``branch`` and ``options``. Calling this function repeatedly with the same ``id`` will overwrite the state and trigger new subsessions (subject to throttling).
``options`` is an object that may contain ``type`` to tag the experiment with a specific type or ``enrollmentId`` to tag the enrollment in this experiment with an identifier.
.. code-block:: js
TelemetryEnvironment.setExperimentActive(id, branch, [options={}}])
This removes the annotation for the experiment with the provided ``id``.
.. code-block:: js
TelemetryEnvironment.setExperimentInactive(id)
This synchronously returns a dictionary containing the information for each active experiment.
.. code-block:: js
TelemetryEnvironment.getActiveExperiments()
.. note::
Both ``setExperimentActive`` and ``setExperimentInactive`` trigger a new subsession. However
the latter only does so if there was an active experiment with the provided ``id``.
Limits and restrictions
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To prevent abuses, the content of the experiment ``id`` and ``branch`` is limited to
100 characters in length.
``type`` is limited to a length of 20 characters.
``enrollmentId`` is limited to 40 characters (chosen to be just a little longer than the 36-character long GUID text representation).