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Clarify the location of tracing's Context interaction. #1187

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Clarifies the location of the tracing interaction with Context, i.e. we want to say that this logic can exist anywhere in the API, as long as it exists in a single place.

The mention of a TracingContextUtils class seemed like a too-specific suggestion, hence the removal (in Java we had this class, but ended up putting the Context interaction as static/instance Span directly).

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@carlosalberto carlosalberto added area:api Cross language API specification issue release:allowed-for-ga Editorial changes that can still be added before GA since they don't require action by SIGs spec:context Related to the specification/context directory spec:trace Related to the specification/trace directory priority:p3 Lowest priority level labels Nov 3, 2020
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Co-authored-by: Christian Neumüller <[email protected]>
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Actually, we may need to also remove the mention of static, as IIRC Ruby poked with the idea of keeping these in the Tracer as instance methods. @open-telemetry/ruby-approvers ? ;)

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Oberon00 commented Nov 3, 2020

I am against removing "static". I mean I'm open to improving the wording to make it more language neutral, but a Tracer instance MUST NOT be required to interact with the current span. This often leads to misunderstandings, such as that each named tracer manages it's own active span, or complaints such as "why do I need to provide an instrumentation library name to access the current span" (#586).

EDIT: I would be OK with allowing nonstatic methods on the TracerProvider.

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Bogdan Drutu and others added 2 commits November 4, 2020 12:31
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@carlosalberto we can do a separate PR for the "static" if you feel strongly.

@carlosalberto carlosalberto merged commit deeed1e into open-telemetry:master Nov 5, 2020
carlosalberto added a commit to carlosalberto/opentelemetry-specification that referenced this pull request Oct 31, 2024
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