feat: add force_push_tracer_provider function.

opentelemetry/src/global/mod.rs

@@ -156,6 +156,7 @@ pub use propagation::{get_text_map_propagator, set_text_map_propagator};
 #[cfg(feature = "trace")]
 #[cfg_attr(docsrs, doc(cfg(feature = "trace")))]
 pub use trace::{
-    set_tracer_provider, shutdown_tracer_provider, tracer, tracer_provider, tracer_with_version,
-    BoxedSpan, BoxedTracer, GenericTracer, GenericTracerProvider, GlobalTracerProvider,
+    force_flush_tracer_provider, set_tracer_provider, shutdown_tracer_provider, tracer,
+    tracer_provider, tracer_with_version, BoxedSpan, BoxedTracer, GenericTracer,
+    GenericTracerProvider, GlobalTracerProvider,
 };

opentelemetry/src/global/trace.rs

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-use crate::trace::NoopTracerProvider;
+use crate::global::handle_error;
+use crate::trace::{NoopTracerProvider, TraceResult};
 use crate::{trace, trace::TracerProvider, Context, KeyValue};
 use std::borrow::Cow;
 use std::fmt;
@@ -168,6 +169,9 @@ pub trait GenericTracerProvider: fmt::Debug + 'static {
         name: &'static str,
         version: Option<&'static str>,
     ) -> Box<dyn GenericTracer + Send + Sync>;
+
+    /// Force flush all remaining spans in span processors and return results.
+    fn force_flush(&self) -> Vec<TraceResult<()>>;
 }
 
 impl<S, T, P> GenericTracerProvider for P
@@ -184,6 +188,10 @@ where
     ) -> Box<dyn GenericTracer + Send + Sync> {
         Box::new(self.get_tracer(name, version))
     }
+
+    fn force_flush(&self) -> Vec<TraceResult<()>> {
+        self.force_flush()
+    }
 }
 
 /// Represents the globally configured [`TracerProvider`] instance for this
@@ -217,6 +225,11 @@ impl trace::TracerProvider for GlobalTracerProvider {
     fn get_tracer(&self, name: &'static str, version: Option<&'static str>) -> Self::Tracer {
         BoxedTracer(self.provider.get_tracer_boxed(name, version))
     }
+
+    /// Force flush all remaining spans in span processors and return results.
+    fn force_flush(&self) -> Vec<TraceResult<()>> {
+        self.provider.force_flush()
+    }
 }
 
 lazy_static::lazy_static! {
@@ -291,6 +304,24 @@ pub fn shutdown_tracer_provider() {
     );
 }
 
+/// Force flush all remaining spans in span processors.
+///
+/// Use the [`global::handle_error`] to handle errors happened during force flush.
+///
+/// [`global::handle_error`]: crate::global::handle_error
+pub fn force_flush_tracer_provider() {
+    let tracer_provider = GLOBAL_TRACER_PROVIDER
+        .write()
+        .expect("GLOBAL_TRACER_PROVIDER RwLock poisoned");
+
+    let results = trace::TracerProvider::force_flush(&*tracer_provider);
+    for result in results {
+        if let Err(err) = result {
+            handle_error(err)
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 // Note that all tests here should be marked as ignore so that it won't be picked up by default We
 // need to run those tests one by one as the GlobalTracerProvider is a shared object between
@@ -378,6 +409,10 @@ mod tests {
         fn get_tracer(&self, _name: &'static str, _version: Option<&'static str>) -> Self::Tracer {
             NoopTracer::default()
         }
+
+        fn force_flush(&self) -> Vec<TraceResult<()>> {
+            Vec::new()
+        }
     }
 
     #[test]

opentelemetry/src/sdk/trace/provider.rs

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@
 //! propagators) are provided by the `TracerProvider`. `Tracer` instances do
 //! not duplicate this data to avoid that different `Tracer` instances
 //! of the `TracerProvider` have different versions of these data.
+use crate::trace::TraceResult;
 use crate::{
     global,
     runtime::Runtime,
@@ -85,6 +86,14 @@ impl crate::trace::TracerProvider for TracerProvider {
 
         sdk::trace::Tracer::new(instrumentation_lib, Arc::downgrade(&self.inner))
     }
+
+    /// Force flush all remaining spans in span processors and return results.
+    fn force_flush(&self) -> Vec<TraceResult<()>> {
+        self.span_processors()
+            .iter()
+            .map(|processor| processor.force_flush())
+            .collect()
+    }
 }
 
 /// Builder for provider attributes.
@@ -146,3 +155,54 @@ impl Builder {
         }
     }
 }
+
+#[cfg(test)]
+mod tests {
+    use crate::sdk::export::trace::SpanData;
+    use crate::sdk::trace::provider::TracerProviderInner;
+    use crate::sdk::trace::{Span, SpanProcessor};
+    use crate::trace::{TraceError, TraceResult, TracerProvider};
+    use crate::Context;
+    use std::sync::Arc;
+
+    #[derive(Debug)]
+    struct TestSpanProcessor {
+        success: bool,
+    }
+
+    impl SpanProcessor for TestSpanProcessor {
+        fn on_start(&self, _span: &Span, _cx: &Context) {
+            unimplemented!()
+        }
+
+        fn on_end(&self, _span: SpanData) {
+            unimplemented!()
+        }
+
+        fn force_flush(&self) -> TraceResult<()> {
+            if self.success {
+                Ok(())
+            } else {
+                Err(TraceError::from("cannot export"))
+            }
+        }
+
+        fn shutdown(&mut self) -> TraceResult<()> {
+            self.force_flush()
+        }
+    }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn test_force_flush() {
+        let tracer_provider = super::TracerProvider::new(Arc::from(TracerProviderInner {
+            processors: vec![
+                Box::from(TestSpanProcessor { success: true }),
+                Box::from(TestSpanProcessor { success: false }),
+            ],
+            config: Default::default(),
+        }));
+
+        let results = tracer_provider.force_flush();
+        assert_eq!(results.len(), 2);
+    }
+}

opentelemetry/src/trace/noop.rs

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 //! This implementation is returned as the global tracer if no `Tracer`
 //! has been set. It is also useful for testing purposes as it is intended
 //! to have minimal resource utilization and runtime impact.
+use crate::trace::TraceResult;
 use crate::{
     sdk::export::trace::{ExportResult, SpanData, SpanExporter},
     trace,
@@ -32,6 +33,11 @@ impl trace::TracerProvider for NoopTracerProvider {
     fn get_tracer(&self, _name: &'static str, _version: Option<&'static str>) -> Self::Tracer {
         NoopTracer::new()
     }
+
+    /// Return an empty `Vec` as there isn't any span processors in `NoopTracerProvider`
+    fn force_flush(&self) -> Vec<TraceResult<()>> {
+        Vec::new()
+    }
 }
 
 /// A no-op instance of a `Span`.

opentelemetry/src/trace/provider.rs

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 //!
 //! Implementations might require the user to specify configuration properties at
 //! `TracerProvider` creation time, or rely on external configurations.
-use crate::trace::Tracer;
+use crate::trace::{TraceResult, Tracer};
 use std::fmt;
 
 /// An interface to create `Tracer` instances.
@@ -30,4 +30,7 @@ pub trait TracerProvider: fmt::Debug + 'static {
     /// Creates a named tracer instance of `Self::Tracer`.
     /// If the name is an empty string then provider uses default name.
     fn get_tracer(&self, name: &'static str, version: Option<&'static str>) -> Self::Tracer;
+
+    /// Force flush all remaining spans in span processors and return results.
+    fn force_flush(&self) -> Vec<TraceResult<()>>;
 }