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sdk-tracer: replace Factory with Provider (open-telemetry#422)
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Co-authored-by: Bogdan Drutu <[email protected]>
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tsloughter and Bogdan Drutu authored Jan 29, 2020
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## Tracer Creation

New `Tracer` instances are always created through a `TracerFactory` (see [API](api-tracing.md#obtaining-a-tracer)).
The `name` and `version` arguments supplied to the `TracerFactory` must be used
to create a `Resource` instance which is stored on the created `Tracer`.
New `Tracer` instances are always created through a `TracerProvider` (see
[API](api-tracing.md#obtaining-a-tracer)). The `name` and `version` arguments
supplied to the `TracerProvider` must be used to create a
[`Resource`](sdk-resource.md) instance which is stored on the created `Tracer`.

All configuration objects (SDK specific) and extension points (span processors,
propagators) must be provided to the `TracerFactory`. `Tracer` instances must
propagators) must be provided to the `TracerProvider`. `Tracer` instances must
not duplicate this data (unless for read-only access) to avoid that different
`Tracer` instances of a `TracerFactory` have different versions of these data.
`Tracer` instances of a `TracerProvider` have different versions of these data.

The readable representations of all `Span` instances created by a `Tracer` must
provide a `getLibraryResource` method that returns this `Resource` information
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Built-in span processors are responsible for batching and conversion of spans to
exportable representation and passing batches to exporters.

Span processors can be registered directly on SDK `TracerFactory` and they are
Span processors can be registered directly on SDK `TracerProvider` and they are
invoked in the same order as they were registered.

All `Tracer` instances created by a `TracerFactory` share the same span processors.
All `Tracer` instances created by a `TracerProvider` share the same span processors.
Changes to this collection reflect in all `Tracer` instances.
Implementation-wise, this could mean that `Tracer` instances have a reference to
their `TracerFactory` and can access span processor objects only via this
their `TracerProvider` and can access span processor objects only via this
reference.

Manipulation of the span processors collection must only happen on `TracerFactory`
Manipulation of the span processors collection must only happen on `TracerProvider`
instances. This means methods like `addSpanProcessor` must be implemented on
`TracerFactory`.
`TracerProvider`.

Each processor registered on `TracerFactory` is a start of pipeline that consist
Each processor registered on `TracerProvider` is a start of pipeline that consist
of span processor and optional exporter. SDK MUST allow to end each pipeline with
individual exporter.

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