Allow component installers to specify a map of installer attributes.

components/component_updater/default_component_installer.h

 // Copyright 2014 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 // found in the LICENSE file.
 
 #ifndef COMPONENTS_COMPONENT_UPDATER_DEFAULT_COMPONENT_INSTALLER_H_
 #define COMPONENTS_COMPONENT_UPDATER_DEFAULT_COMPONENT_INSTALLER_H_
 
 #include <stdint.h>
 
 #include <memory>
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   // Returns a relative path that will be appended to the component updater
   // root directories to find the data for this particular component.
   virtual base::FilePath GetRelativeInstallDir() const = 0;
 
   // Returns the component's SHA2 hash as raw bytes.
   virtual void GetHash(std::vector<uint8_t>* hash) const = 0;
 
   // Returns the human-readable name of the component.
   virtual std::string GetName() const = 0;
 
-  // Returns the additional parameters to be used in the update checks for
-  // this component. A compatible server may use this attribute to negotiate
-  // special update rules when issuing an update response.
-  // The current implementation restricts ap to ^([-+_=a-zA-Z0-9]{0,256})$
-  virtual std::string GetAp() const = 0;
+  // Returns a container of name-value pairs representing arbitrary,
+  // installer-defined metadata.
+

[Sorin Jianu, 2016/06/28 21:46:11]

I will handle this empty line.

+  // The installer metadata may be used in the update checks for this component.
+  // A compatible server may use these attributes to negotiate special update
+  // rules when issuing an update response.
+  // Valid values for the name part of an attribute match
+  // ^[-_a-zA-Z0-9]{1,256}$ and valid values the value part of an attribute
+  // match ^[-.,;+_=a-zA-Z0-9]{0,256}$ .
+  virtual update_client::InstallerAttributes GetInstallerAttributes() const = 0;
 };
 
 // A DefaultComponentInstaller is intended to be final, and not derived from.
 // Customization must be provided by passing a ComponentInstallerTraits object
 // to the constructor.
 class DefaultComponentInstaller : public update_client::CrxInstaller {
  public:
   DefaultComponentInstaller(
       std::unique_ptr<ComponentInstallerTraits> installer_traits);
 
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   scoped_refptr<base::SingleThreadTaskRunner> main_task_runner_;
 
   base::ThreadChecker thread_checker_;
 
   DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(DefaultComponentInstaller);
 };
 
 }  // namespace component_updater
 
 #endif  // COMPONENTS_COMPONENT_UPDATER_DEFAULT_COMPONENT_INSTALLER_H_