Services

Services are external or internal libraries that potentially use personal data. These tools should be declared in the bim-GDPR view in order to allow users to enable/disable their use at any time.

Service principle

Services are created from object that match the ServiceInterface. Object that matches the ServicesInterface should not be confused with Services. Services are create by the ServiceManager within the addService or createService. For example:

const notAService = new GoogleAnalyticsService()
const aService = bgdpr.creaeService(notAService)

In this case you cannot call services methods on the object notAService. You can only call them on the aService object. Of course, all the mehtods of the object notAService are merged into the service aService

More than a simple declaration

Unlike many of other tools that only declare services, bim-GDPR aims to be a centralisation tool for external services. bim-GDPR is not a simple enabling and disabling tool.

When a website uses a service like Google analytics, developpers have to deals with GDPR declaration on one side and use on the other side. bim-GDPR aims to centralize declaration and use. So when you have to use a service, you'd better use the bim-GDPR service interface. Services are use hubs. Using the bim-GDPR dedicated service to use the service tools is a better solution that allows developers to discharge themselves about testing if the service is enabled or not. That also means that the service has to expose a dedicated api.

For example, this are two different ways to call the service features :

// 1. declare service.
const gaService = bgdpr.createService(new GoogleAnalyticsService('UA-******'))
// { ... }

// 2. use service 
document.querySelector('.test')
    .addEventListener('click', () =>{
        // The bad way. This trigger an error if the service is not enabled.   
        ga('send', 'pageview');

        // The good way  
        gaService.push('send', 'pageview')
    })