Add the ability to set status or record exception to a Span

[roeycarmi]

What feature do you want to see added?

In java, i can do the following:

try {
    // Code that might throw an exception
} catch (Exception e) {
    span.recordException(e);
    span.setStatus(StatusCode.ERROR, "Exception occurred");
}

But the plugin function (i.e setSpanAttributes, withSpanAttribute, withSpanAttributes) only allow me to set attributes.

Upstream changes

No response

Are you interested in contributing this feature?

No response

[kuisathaverat]

🤔 Can you give more details about the use case for this?

[roeycarmi]

I am running a python script that may return a variaty of exit codes.
In the groovy code I would like to decide for each return code whether to mark the span with status OK or ERROR.
Plus, I may want to put my own Exception message.
For example: my python script may return code 2 and I'll want to set the status to ERROR and record an exception "InfrastructureException Occured"

[kuisathaverat]

I think you can achieve that with something like this, to playing with try-catch or catcherror blocks in groovy, or even better using post stages.

script {
      ret = sh(script: 'exit $(echo "$RANDOM%4" |bc)', returnStatus: true)
      if(ret == 1){
         error("Error 1")
      } else if (ret == 2){
         error("Error 2")
      } else if (ret == 3){
         error("Error 3")
      } else if (ret == 4){
         error("Error 4")
      } else {
         error("Error unknow")
      }
}

[roeycarmi]

Great answer, thanks for the response!