Add a server-configurable flags API

Adds a new set of flags that can be set by the command line, server
configuration, or system properties. These flags can be used to enable
or disable certain features or otherwise change their behavior. The
flexible configuration options facilitate both development and also
experimentation.

As an example of their use, this CL also moves the
-Xwrite-metrics-to-log command line option to the flags system
instead. Future work will migrate the rest of the metrics settings.

Test: ./test/run-test --host --jit 2232-write-metrics-to-log
Bug: 175050458
Change-Id: I1ef37e7d355204a3172b7aa5c0baa4cbd8c7076b

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/cmdline/cmdline_types.h b/cmdline/cmdline_types.h
index 2d7d5f1b78..7f01be6472 100644
--- a/cmdline/cmdline_types.h
+++ b/cmdline/cmdline_types.h
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 #include <list>
 #include <ostream>
 
+#include "android-base/parsebool.h"
 #include "android-base/stringprintf.h"
 #include "cmdline_type_parser.h"
 #include "detail/cmdline_debug_detail.h"
@@ -67,6 +68,22 @@ struct CmdlineType<Unit> : CmdlineTypeParser<Unit> {
 };
 
 template <>
+struct CmdlineType<bool> : CmdlineTypeParser<bool> {
+  Result Parse(const std::string& args) {
+    switch (::android::base::ParseBool(args)) {
+      case ::android::base::ParseBoolResult::kError:
+        return Result::Failure("Could not parse '" + args + "' as boolean");
+      case ::android::base::ParseBoolResult::kTrue:
+        return Result::Success(true);
+      case ::android::base::ParseBoolResult::kFalse:
+        return Result::Success(false);
+    }
+  }
+
+  static const char* DescribeType() { return "true|false|0|1|y|n|yes|no|on|off"; }
+};
+
+template <>
 struct CmdlineType<JdwpProvider> : CmdlineTypeParser<JdwpProvider> {
   /*
    * Handle a single JDWP provider name. Must be either 'internal', 'default', or the file name of