element-ios/Riot/Experiments/Experiment.swift

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//
// Copyright 2023, 2024 New Vector Ltd.
//
// SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only
// Please see LICENSE in the repository root for full details.
//
import Foundation
import CryptoKit
/// Object encapsulating an experiment with an arbitrary number of variants, and a method to deterministically
/// and uniformly assign a variant to user. Variants do not carry any implicit semantics, they are plain numbers
/// to be interpreted by the caller of the experiment.
struct Experiment {
let name: String
let variants: UInt
/// Get the assigned variant from the total number of variants and for a given `userId`
///
/// This variant is chosen deterministically (the same `userId` and experiment `name` will yield the same variant)
/// and uniformly (multiple users are distributed roughly evenly among the variants).
func variant(userId: String) -> UInt {
// Combine user id with experiment name to avoid identical variant
// for the same user in different experiments
let data = (userId + name).data(using: .utf8) ?? Data()
// Get the first 8 bytes and map to decimal number (UInt64 = 8 bytes)
let decimal = digest(for: data)
.prefix(8)
.reduce(0) { $0 << 8 | UInt64($1) }
// Compress the decimal into a set number of variants using modulo
return UInt(decimal % UInt64(variants))
}
private func digest(for data: Data) -> SHA256.Digest {
var sha = SHA256()
sha.update(data: data)
return sha.finalize()
}
}