Bug 1519538 - Disable idle-daily notifications in tests through user.js files. r=Standard8

Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D19017

--HG--
extra : moz-landing-system : lando

dom/indexedDB/test/unit/test_idle_maintenance.js

@@ -15,9 +15,8 @@ function* testSteps()
 
   Services.perms.add(uri, "indexedDB", Ci.nsIPermissionManager.ALLOW_ACTION);
 
-  info("Setting idle preferences to prevent real 'idle-daily' notification");
-
-  Services.prefs.setIntPref("idle.lastDailyNotification", (Date.now() / 1000) - 10);
+  // The idle-daily notification is disabled in xpchsell tests, so we don't
+  // need to do anything special to disable it for this test.
 
   info("Activating real idle service");
 

testing/mochitest/runtests.py

@@ -1879,7 +1879,6 @@ toolbar#nav-bar {
         prefs = {
             "browser.tabs.remote.autostart": options.e10s,
             "dom.ipc.tabs.nested.enabled": options.nested_oop,
-            "idle.lastDailyNotification": int(time.time()),
             # Enable tracing output for detailed failures in case of
             # failing connection attempts, and hangs (bug 1397201)
             "marionette.log.level": "Trace",

testing/profiles/perf/user.js

@@ -63,6 +63,9 @@ user_pref("extensions.update.url", "http://127.0.0.1/extensions-dummy/updateURL"
 user_pref("extensions.webservice.discoverURL", "http://127.0.0.1/extensions-dummy/discoveryURL");
 user_pref("identity.fxaccounts.auth.uri", "https://127.0.0.1/fxa-dummy/");
 user_pref("identity.fxaccounts.migrateToDevEdition", false);
+// Avoid idle-daily notifications, to avoid expensive operations that may
+// cause unexpected test timeouts.
+user_pref("idle.lastDailyNotification", -1);
 // Make tests run consistently on DevEdition (which has a lightweight theme
 // selected by default).
 user_pref("lightweightThemes.selectedThemeID", "");

testing/profiles/unittest-required/user.js

@@ -153,6 +153,9 @@ user_pref("gfx.logging.level", 1);
 user_pref("identity.fxaccounts.auth.uri", "https://{server}/fxa-dummy/");
 // Ditto for all the FxA content root URI.
 user_pref("identity.fxaccounts.remote.root", "https://{server}/");
+// Avoid idle-daily notifications, to avoid expensive operations that may
+// cause unexpected test timeouts.
+user_pref("idle.lastDailyNotification", -1);
 user_pref("javascript.options.showInConsole", true);
 user_pref("layout.accessiblecaret.enabled_on_touch", false);
 // Make sure CSS error reporting is enabled for tests

testing/profiles/xpcshell/user.js

@@ -16,3 +16,6 @@ user_pref("toolkit.telemetry.server", "https://%(server)s/telemetry-dummy");
 // all processes would run at low priority, which is not desirable, so we
 // disable the process priority manager entirely here.
 user_pref("dom.ipc.processPriorityManager.enabled", false);
+// Avoid idle-daily notifications, to avoid expensive operations that may
+// cause unexpected test timeouts.
+user_pref("idle.lastDailyNotification", -1);

testing/talos/talos/config.py

@@ -142,11 +142,6 @@ def set_webserver(config):
 
 @validator
 def update_prefs(config):
-    config.setdefault('preferences', {}).update({
-        # Bug 1383896 - reduces noise in tests
-        'idle.lastDailyNotification': int(time.time()),
-    })
-
     # update prefs from command line
     prefs = config.pop('extraPrefs')
     if prefs:

toolkit/modules/Troubleshoot.jsm

@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@ const PREFS_WHITELIST = [
   "general.useragent.",
   "gfx.",
   "html5.",
+  "idle.",
   "image.",
   "javascript.",
   "keyword.",

widget/nsIdleService.cpp

@@ -156,8 +156,17 @@ void nsIdleServiceDaily::Init() {
   // get ready to send an idle-daily event. Otherwise set a timer targeted
   // at 24 hours past the last idle-daily we sent.
 
-  int32_t nowSec = static_cast<int32_t>(PR_Now() / PR_USEC_PER_SEC);
   int32_t lastDaily = Preferences::GetInt(PREF_LAST_DAILY, 0);
+  // Setting the pref to -1 allows to disable idle-daily, and it's particularly
+  // useful in tests. Normally there should be no need for the user to set
+  // this value.
+  if (lastDaily == -1) {
+    MOZ_LOG(sLog, LogLevel::Debug,
+            ("nsIdleServiceDaily: Init: disabled idle-daily"));
+    return;
+  }
+
+  int32_t nowSec = static_cast<int32_t>(PR_Now() / PR_USEC_PER_SEC);
   if (lastDaily < 0 || lastDaily > nowSec) {
     // The time is bogus, use default.
     lastDaily = 0;