opentelemetry-go/api/global/trace.go

// Copyright The OpenTelemetry Authors
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//
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package global

import (
	"go.opentelemetry.io/otel/api/global/internal"
	"go.opentelemetry.io/otel/api/trace"
)

// Tracer creates a named tracer that implements Tracer interface.
// If the name is an empty string then provider uses default name.
//
// This is short for TraceProvider().Tracer(name)
func Tracer(name string) trace.Tracer {
	return TraceProvider().Tracer(name)
}

// TraceProvider returns the registered global trace provider.
// If none is registered then an instance of trace.NoopProvider is returned.
//
// Use the trace provider to create a named tracer. E.g.
//     tracer := global.TraceProvider().Tracer("example.com/foo")
// or
//     tracer := global.Tracer("example.com/foo")
func TraceProvider() trace.Provider {
	return internal.TraceProvider()
}

// SetTraceProvider registers `tp` as the global trace provider.
func SetTraceProvider(tp trace.Provider) {
	internal.SetTraceProvider(tp)
}