Replace jsonpickle with json to serialize entity (#275)

* Replace jsonpickle with json to serialize entity

* Added workflow to create release tag

* Pinned sqlalchemy and Flask-SQLAlchemy for unit test

* Fixed version

* Changed log to debug level

* Update logging

* Added empty line

.github/workflows/Release.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+name: Release X-Ray Python SDK
+
+on:
+  workflow_dispatch:
+    inputs:
+      version:
+        description: The version to tag the release with, e.g., 1.2.0, 1.3.0
+        required: true
+
+jobs:
+  release:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout master branch
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+      - name: Create Release
+        id: create_release
+        uses: actions/create-release@v1
+        env:
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        with:
+          tag_name: '${{ github.event.inputs.version }}'
+          release_name: '${{ github.event.inputs.version }} Release'
+          body: 'See details in [CHANGELOG](https://github.com/aws/aws-xray-sdk-python/blob/master/CHANGELOG.rst)'
+          draft: true
+          prerelease: false

aws_xray_sdk/core/models/entity.py

@@ -4,9 +4,10 @@
 import time
 import string
 
-import jsonpickle
+import json
 
 from ..utils.compat import annotation_value_types, string_types
+from ..utils.conversion import metadata_to_dict
 from .throwable import Throwable
 from . import http
 from ..exceptions.exceptions import AlreadyEndedException
@@ -256,36 +257,42 @@ def get_origin_trace_header(self):
     def serialize(self):
         """
         Serialize to JSON document that can be accepted by the
-        X-Ray backend service. It uses jsonpickle to perform
-        serialization.
+        X-Ray backend service. It uses json to perform serialization.
         """
         try:
-            return jsonpickle.encode(self, unpicklable=False)
+            return json.dumps(self.to_dict(), default=str)
         except Exception:
-            log.exception("got an exception during serialization")
+            log.exception("Failed to serialize %s", self.name)
 
-    def _delete_empty_properties(self, properties):
+    def to_dict(self):
         """
-        Delete empty properties before serialization to avoid
-        extra keys with empty values in the output json.
+        Convert Entity(Segment/Subsegment) object to dict
+        with required properties that have non-empty values. 
         """
-        if not self.parent_id:
-            del properties['parent_id']
-        if not self.subsegments:
-            del properties['subsegments']
-        if not self.aws:
-            del properties['aws']
-        if not self.http:
-            del properties['http']
-        if not self.cause:
-            del properties['cause']
-        if not self.annotations:
-            del properties['annotations']
-        if not self.metadata:
-            del properties['metadata']
-        properties.pop(ORIGIN_TRACE_HEADER_ATTR_KEY, None)
-
-        del properties['sampled']
+        entity_dict = {}
+
+        for key, value in vars(self).items():
+            if isinstance(value, bool) or value:
+                if key == 'subsegments':
+                    # child subsegments are stored as List
+                    subsegments = []
+                    for subsegment in value:
+                        subsegments.append(subsegment.to_dict())
+                    entity_dict[key] = subsegments
+                elif key == 'cause':
+                    entity_dict[key] = {}
+                    entity_dict[key]['working_directory'] = self.cause['working_directory']
+                    # exceptions are stored as List
+                    throwables = []
+                    for throwable in value['exceptions']:
+                        throwables.append(throwable.to_dict())
+                    entity_dict[key]['exceptions'] = throwables
+                elif key == 'metadata':
+                    entity_dict[key] = metadata_to_dict(value)
+                elif key != 'sampled' and key != ORIGIN_TRACE_HEADER_ATTR_KEY:
+            	    entity_dict[key] = value
+
+        return entity_dict
 
     def _check_ended(self):
         if not self.in_progress:

aws_xray_sdk/core/models/segment.py

@@ -155,14 +155,14 @@ def set_rule_name(self, rule_name):
             self.aws['xray'] = {}
         self.aws['xray']['sampling_rule_name'] = rule_name
 
-    def __getstate__(self):
-        """
-        Used by jsonpikle to remove unwanted fields.
-        """
-        properties = copy.copy(self.__dict__)
-        super(Segment, self)._delete_empty_properties(properties)
-        if not self.user:
-            del properties['user']
-        del properties['ref_counter']
-        del properties['_subsegments_counter']
-        return properties
+    def to_dict(self):   
+        """
+        Convert Segment object to dict with required properties
+        that have non-empty values. 
+        """ 
+        segment_dict = super(Segment, self).to_dict()
+          
+        del segment_dict['ref_counter']
+        del segment_dict['_subsegments_counter']
+
+        return segment_dict

aws_xray_sdk/core/models/subsegment.py

@@ -149,12 +149,13 @@ def set_sql(self, sql):
         """
         self.sql = sql
 
-    def __getstate__(self):
-
-        properties = copy.copy(self.__dict__)
-        super(Subsegment, self)._delete_empty_properties(properties)
-
-        del properties['parent_segment']
-        if not self.sql:
-            del properties['sql']
-        return properties
+    def to_dict(self): 
+        """
+        Convert Subsegment object to dict with required properties
+        that have non-empty values. 
+        """    
+        subsegment_dict = super(Subsegment, self).to_dict()
+
+        del subsegment_dict['parent_segment']
+
+        return subsegment_dict

aws_xray_sdk/core/models/throwable.py

@@ -46,6 +46,19 @@ def __init__(self, exception, stack, remote=False):
         if exception:
             setattr(exception, '_recorded', True)
             setattr(exception, '_cause_id', self.id)
+
+    def to_dict(self):  
+        """
+        Convert Throwable object to dict with required properties that
+        have non-empty values. 
+        """  
+        throwable_dict = {}
+
+        for key, value in vars(self).items():  
+            if isinstance(value, bool) or value:
+                throwable_dict[key] = value       
+
+        return throwable_dict
 
     def _normalize_stack_trace(self, stack):
         if stack is None:
@@ -66,11 +79,3 @@ def _normalize_stack_trace(self, stack):
             normalized['label'] = label.strip()
 
             self.stack.append(normalized)
-
-    def __getstate__(self):
-        properties = copy.copy(self.__dict__)
-
-        if not self.stack:
-            del properties['stack']
-
-        return properties

aws_xray_sdk/core/utils/conversion.py

@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+import logging
+
+log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
+def metadata_to_dict(obj):
+    """
+    Convert object to dict with all serializable properties like:
+    dict, list, set, tuple, str, bool, int, float, type, object, etc.
+    """
+    try:
+        if isinstance(obj, dict):
+            metadata = {}
+            for key, value in obj.items():
+                metadata[key] = metadata_to_dict(value)
+            return metadata
+        elif isinstance(obj, type):
+            return str(obj)
+        elif hasattr(obj, "_ast"):
+            return metadata_to_dict(obj._ast())
+        elif hasattr(obj, "__iter__") and not isinstance(obj, str):
+            metadata = []
+            for item in obj:
+                metadata.append(metadata_to_dict(item))
+            return metadata
+        elif hasattr(obj, "__dict__"):
+            metadata = {}
+            for key, value in vars(obj).items():
+                if not callable(value) and not key.startswith('_'):
+                    metadata[key] = metadata_to_dict(value)
+            return metadata
+        else:
+            return obj
+    except Exception:
+        log.exception("Failed to convert {} to dict".format(str(obj)))
+        return {}

setup.py

@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@
     ],
 
     install_requires=[
-        'jsonpickle',
         'enum34;python_version<"3.4"',
         'wrapt',
         'future',