This PR removes the non-compliant ChildOf and FollowsFrom interfaces
and the Relation type, which were inherited from OpenTracing via the
initial prototype. Instead allow adding a span context to the go
context as a remote span context and use a simple algorithm for
figuring out an actual parent of the new span, which was proposed for
the OpenTelemetry specification.
Also add a way to ignore current span and remote span context in go
context, so we can force the tracer to create a new root span - a span
with a new trace ID.
That required some moderate changes in the opentracing bridge - first
reference with ChildOfRef reference type becomes a local parent, the
rest become links. This also fixes links handling in the meantime. The
downside of the approach proposed here is that we can only set the
remote parent when creating a span through the opentracing API.
Co-authored-by: Joshua MacDonald <jmacd@users.noreply.github.com>
* Rename distributedcontext package to correlation
Correlation is the name we agreed upon.
* Move trace propagators to api/trace
The trace propagators tests had to be moved to a testtrace subpackage
to avoid import cycles between api/trace and internal/trace.
Needed to shut up golint about stutter in trace.TraceContext -
TraceContext is a name of a W3C spec, so this stutter is
expected. It's certainly still better than golint's suggestion of
having trace.Context.
* Rename api/propagators to api/propagation
This package will not contain any propagators in the long run, just
the interface definitions.
Co-authored-by: Joshua MacDonald <jmacd@users.noreply.github.com>
Change all occurrences of value to pointer receivers
Add meta sys files to .gitignore
Code cleanup e.g.
- Don't capitalize error statements
- Fix ignored errors
- Fix ambiguous variable naming
- Remove unnecessary type casting
- Use named params
Fix#306
