From a01683aabb4d7237aa4f90634c73b3de95731e07 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mayur Kale <mayurkale@google.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2019 17:15:19 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Add SpanExporter

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 .../src/trace/export/SpanExporter.ts          | 32 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 packages/opentelemetry-types/src/trace/export/SpanExporter.ts

diff --git a/packages/opentelemetry-types/src/trace/export/SpanExporter.ts b/packages/opentelemetry-types/src/trace/export/SpanExporter.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5cdad429af2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/opentelemetry-types/src/trace/export/SpanExporter.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+/**
+ * Copyright 2019, OpenTelemetry Authors
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+import { Span } from '../span';
+
+/**
+ * An interface that allows different tracing services to export recorded data
+ * for sampled spans in their own format.
+ */
+export interface SpanExporter {
+  /**
+   * Called to export sampled {@link Span}s.
+   * @param spans the list of sampled Spans to be exported.
+   */
+  export(spans: Span[]): void;
+
+  /** Stops the exporter. */
+  stop(): void;
+}