[3.x] Guard against NPE during early invocation of Span.current() #8256
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
This suggestion is invalid because no changes were made to the code.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is closed.
Suggestions cannot be applied while viewing a subset of changes.
Only one suggestion per line can be applied in a batch.
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
Applying suggestions on deleted lines is not supported.
You must change the existing code in this line in order to create a valid suggestion.
Outdated suggestions cannot be applied.
This suggestion has been applied or marked resolved.
Suggestions cannot be applied from pending reviews.
Suggestions cannot be applied on multi-line comments.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is queued to merge.
Suggestion cannot be applied right now. Please check back later.
Description
Resolves #8255
See description of scenario in the issue.
This PR changes
TracerProviderHelper#currentSpan
to check ifTRACER_PROVIDER
is null and, if so, returnsOptional.empty()
for the current span instead of throwing the NPE.This should not happen unless a custom tracer provider tries, directly or indirectly, to use
Span.current()
during its initialization.Documentation
Bug fix; no doc impact.