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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.jsm``.
The following function adds an annotation to the environment for the provided ``id`` and ``branch``. Calling this function repeatedly with the same ``id`` will overwrite the state and trigger new subsessions (subject to throttling).
.. code-block:: js
TelemetryEnvironment.setExperimentActive(id, branch)
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 both the experiment ``id`` and ``branch`` is limited to
100 characters in length.