OpenTracing Python Proposal

This repository includes a proposal to extend the OpenTracing Python API so that the in-process context propagation can be handled by specific implementations. A set of examples and over-simplified implementations are provided as a proof of concepts to open discussion about pros and cons of this proposal.

The repository is structured as follows:

• proposal: includes all that is part of the proposal; this is a backport of PR available in the main opentracing repository
• ext: includes simplified implementations that are used as a proof of concept. These implementations are used by examples available in this repository;
• examples: includes many simple and real use cases when dealing with different executions flow. Some of these examples may be extended and considered as unittests to validate if a Tracer implementation honors the specification.

Run the examples

To run the examples, create a Python virtualenv and then::

pip install -r requirements.txt
python run_examples.py
python run_server_example.py

Examples require Python 3.5+ because asyncio library is used in some of them.