Multiple form targets

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It would be great to be able to have multiple form targets at the same time - 
one for bug/crash reports, one/others for statistics/usage, etc.

Many developers are interested to know which activities are performed most 
often, what are the performance results of their apps, etc.

To collect them may be a privacy issue, but well-managed by developers, it is a 
great tool. Actually, some other libraries offer similar facilities. 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by sammyshe...@gmail.com on 24 Jul 2012 at 1:14

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A supposed use of it would be

ErrorReporter.getInstance().handleException(caughtException); (default)

EventReporter.getInstance().sendInfo(infoParameters, target);

Original comment by sammyshe...@gmail.com on 24 Jul 2012 at 1:32

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There are actually 2 requests in your proposal:
- handling multiple forms, which could be interesting for many reasons
- reporting app usage stats

The second topic (stats) has been in my mind for a long time, and every few 
months, I'm thinking about adding such a feature or not.

Usually I come to the conclusion that ACRA is all about reporting bugs. So I 
don't go further towards stats.

But every time I check some ACRA reports, I am amazed by the potential value 
that we could gain from using all these data for stats...

So, I might in some later version change my mind and add a statistics module to 
ACRA, but doing it as a simple second formKey does not sound to me like the 
right way to help devs with these stats. Collecting data is a simple matter. 
Extracting key indicators from the data is complex. I've not really analyzed 
anything on this topic, but I might start after I release ACRAv4.3... Hopefully 
soon...

Original comment by kevin.gaudin on 24 Jul 2012 at 10:19

• Added labels: Type-Enhancement
• Removed labels: Type-Defect

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About the multiple forms... This is something that should be possible with the 
upcoming version 4.3. I modified the trunk yesterday to allow the handling of 
multiple ACRAConfiguration instances which contain every ACRA configuration 
items, including the formKey. So it should be possible to switch from one 
config instance to another to post different data to different forms.

There might be some shortcomings though, like for example the handling of a 
real Exception at the very moment where ACRA is configured to send a stats 
report... you can expect pollution in your stats spreadsheet and loss of 
reports in your crashes spreadsheet.

Original comment by kevin.gaudin on 24 Jul 2012 at 11:32