OpenTelemetry API changing soon

[dyladan]

Hello, I am one of the maintainers of OpenTelemetry JS and I noticed that you took us on as a dependency. I just wanted to reach out and let you know that we're available in the https://gitter.im/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-node gitter channel and that we're happy to work with you if you run into any challenges.

One that we expect you will run into soon is that we're changing the public facing API soon. Instead of registering a global tracer, you will need to register a global tracer factory/provider/registry (name still subject to change), then from there you acquire a tracer by calling getTracer with the name and version of your library. In your case, it would be getTracer('@expresso/tracing', '1.0.5').

This may be a particular issue for you, as I noticed that you've installed us using the version scheme ^0.3.2 in your package.json, which means any install could get any version we publish before 1.0. Since we are still in alpha, we expect that there may be further API changes.

Mentioning @mayurkale22 so he also sees this. If you have any questions feel free to reach out (or just reply here). Cheers!

[roziscoding]

Hi, @dyladan. Thanks for the heads up! I'll set the version to fixed one until I get the time to make the necessary API changes and check to see how they'll affect the library's API.

Again, thanks for reaching out!

[dyladan]

No problem, it should be very soon. I'll comment here when the new API is available.

[roziscoding]

Just spent half an hour trying to realize what was wrong until I thought about this issue, 'cause I didn't change the version haha

[dyladan]

oh no I'm sorry I forgot to comment :/

[roziscoding]

that's alright
the main problem was the internal modules updating, eevn though I set the version to 0.3.2 on my package
I commented about this on an issue in the OpenTelemetry repo