X-Git-Url: https://scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/autoinstallsdev/mediawiki.git/blobdiff_plain/19e297c21b10b1b8a3acad5e73fc71dcb35db44a..6932310fd58ebef145fa01eb76edf7150284d8ea:/resources/src/mediawiki/mediawiki.experiments.js diff --git a/resources/src/mediawiki/mediawiki.experiments.js b/resources/src/mediawiki/mediawiki.experiments.js new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4fedbeae --- /dev/null +++ b/resources/src/mediawiki/mediawiki.experiments.js @@ -0,0 +1,109 @@ +( function ( mw, $ ) { + + var CONTROL_BUCKET = 'control', + MAX_INT32_UNSIGNED = 4294967295; + + /** + * An implementation of Jenkins' one-at-a-time hash. + * + * @see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkins_hash_function + * + * @param {string} string String to hash + * @return {number} The hash as a 32-bit unsigned integer + * @ignore + * + * @author Ori Livneh + * @see https://jsbin.com/kejewi/4/watch?js,console + */ + function hashString( string ) { + /* eslint-disable no-bitwise */ + var hash = 0, + i = string.length; + + while ( i-- ) { + hash += string.charCodeAt( i ); + hash += ( hash << 10 ); + hash ^= ( hash >> 6 ); + } + hash += ( hash << 3 ); + hash ^= ( hash >> 11 ); + hash += ( hash << 15 ); + + return hash >>> 0; + /* eslint-enable no-bitwise */ + } + + /** + * Provides an API for bucketing users in experiments. + * + * @class mw.experiments + * @singleton + */ + mw.experiments = { + + /** + * Gets the bucket for the experiment given the token. + * + * The name of the experiment and the token are hashed. The hash is converted + * to a number which is then used to get a bucket. + * + * Consider the following experiment specification: + * + * ``` + * { + * name: 'My first experiment', + * enabled: true, + * buckets: { + * control: 0.5 + * A: 0.25, + * B: 0.25 + * } + * } + * ``` + * + * The experiment has three buckets: control, A, and B. The user has a 50% + * chance of being assigned to the control bucket, and a 25% chance of being + * assigned to either the A or B buckets. If the experiment were disabled, + * then the user would always be assigned to the control bucket. + * + * @param {Object} experiment + * @param {string} experiment.name The name of the experiment + * @param {boolean} experiment.enabled Whether or not the experiment is + * enabled. If the experiment is disabled, then the user is always assigned + * to the control bucket + * @param {Object} experiment.buckets A map of bucket name to probability + * that the user will be assigned to that bucket + * @param {string} token A token that uniquely identifies the user for the + * duration of the experiment + * @return {string} The bucket + */ + getBucket: function ( experiment, token ) { + var buckets = experiment.buckets, + key, + range = 0, + hash, + max, + acc = 0; + + if ( !experiment.enabled || $.isEmptyObject( experiment.buckets ) ) { + return CONTROL_BUCKET; + } + + for ( key in buckets ) { + range += buckets[ key ]; + } + + hash = hashString( experiment.name + ':' + token ); + max = ( hash / MAX_INT32_UNSIGNED ) * range; + + for ( key in buckets ) { + acc += buckets[ key ]; + + if ( max <= acc ) { + return key; + } + } + } + }; + +}( mediaWiki, jQuery ) );