First round of comments addressed

exporter/exporterhelper/common.go

@@ -31,38 +31,36 @@ var (
 	okStatus = trace.Status{Code: trace.StatusCodeOK}
 )
 
+// Settings for timeout. The timeout applies to individual attempts to send data to the backend.
 type TimeoutSettings struct {
-	// Timeout is the timeout for each operation.
+	// Timeout is the timeout for every attempt to send data to the backend.
 	Timeout time.Duration `mapstructure:"timeout"`
 }
 
+// CreateDefaultTimeoutSettings returns the default settings for TimeoutSettings.
 func CreateDefaultTimeoutSettings() TimeoutSettings {
 	return TimeoutSettings{
 		Timeout: 5 * time.Second,
 	}
 }
 
-type settings struct {
-	configmodels.Exporter
-	TimeoutSettings
-	QueuedSettings
-	RetrySettings
-}
-
+// request is an abstraction of an individual request (batch of data) independent of the type of the data (traces, metrics, logs).
 type request interface {
 	context() context.Context
 	setContext(context.Context)
 	export(ctx context.Context) (int, error)
-	// Returns a new queue request that contains the items left to be exported.
+	// Returns a new request that contains the items left to be sent.
 	onPartialError(consumererror.PartialError) request
-	// Returns the cnt of spans/metric points or log records.
+	// Returns the count of spans/metric points or log records.
 	count() int
 }
 
+// requestSender is an abstraction of a sender for a request independent of the type of the data (traces, metrics, logs).
 type requestSender interface {
 	send(req request) (int, error)
 }
 
+// baseRequest is a base implementation for the request.
 type baseRequest struct {
 	ctx context.Context
 }
@@ -81,139 +79,146 @@ type Start func(context.Context, component.Host) error
 // Shutdown specifies the function invoked when the exporter is being shutdown.
 type Shutdown func(context.Context) error
 
+// internalOptions represents all the options that users can configured.
+type internalOptions struct {
+	TimeoutSettings
+	QueueSettings
+	RetrySettings
+	Start
+	Shutdown
+}
+
+// fromConfiguredOptions returns the internal options starting from the default and applying all configured options.
+func fromConfiguredOptions(options ...ExporterOption) *internalOptions {
+	// Start from the default options:
+	opts := &internalOptions{
+		TimeoutSettings: CreateDefaultTimeoutSettings(),
+		// TODO: Enable queuing by default (call CreateDefaultQueueSettings)
+		QueueSettings: QueueSettings{Disabled: true},
+		// TODO: Enable retry by default (call CreateDefaultRetrySettings)
+		RetrySettings: RetrySettings{Disabled: true},
+		Start:         func(ctx context.Context, host component.Host) error { return nil },
+		Shutdown:      func(ctx context.Context) error { return nil },
+	}
+
+	for _, op := range options {
+		op(opts)
+	}
+
+	return opts
+}
+
 // ExporterOption apply changes to internalOptions.
-type ExporterOption func(*baseExporter)
+type ExporterOption func(*internalOptions)
 
 // WithShutdown overrides the default Shutdown function for an exporter.
 // The default shutdown function does nothing and always returns nil.
 func WithShutdown(shutdown Shutdown) ExporterOption {
-	return func(o *baseExporter) {
-		o.shutdown = shutdown
+	return func(o *internalOptions) {
+		o.Shutdown = shutdown
 	}
 }
 
 // WithStart overrides the default Start function for an exporter.
 // The default shutdown function does nothing and always returns nil.
 func WithStart(start Start) ExporterOption {
-	return func(o *baseExporter) {
-		o.start = start
+	return func(o *internalOptions) {
+		o.Start = start
 	}
 }
 
-// WithShutdown overrides the default TimeoutSettings for an exporter.
+// WithTimeout overrides the default TimeoutSettings for an exporter.
 // The default TimeoutSettings is 5 seconds.
-func WithTimeout(timeout TimeoutSettings) ExporterOption {
-	return func(o *baseExporter) {
-		o.cfg.TimeoutSettings = timeout
+func WithTimeout(timeoutSettings TimeoutSettings) ExporterOption {
+	return func(o *internalOptions) {
+		o.TimeoutSettings = timeoutSettings
 	}
 }
 
 // WithRetry overrides the default RetrySettings for an exporter.
 // The default RetrySettings is to disable retries.
-func WithRetry(retry RetrySettings) ExporterOption {
-	return func(o *baseExporter) {
-		o.cfg.RetrySettings = retry
+func WithRetry(retrySettings RetrySettings) ExporterOption {
+	return func(o *internalOptions) {
+		o.RetrySettings = retrySettings
 	}
 }
 
-// WithQueued overrides the default QueuedSettings for an exporter.
-// The default QueuedSettings is to disable queueing.
-func WithQueued(queued QueuedSettings) ExporterOption {
-	return func(o *baseExporter) {
-		o.cfg.QueuedSettings = queued
+// WithQueue overrides the default QueueSettings for an exporter.
+// The default QueueSettings is to disable queueing.
+func WithQueue(queueSettings QueueSettings) ExporterOption {
+	return func(o *internalOptions) {
+		o.QueueSettings = queueSettings
 	}
 }
 
-// internalOptions contains internalOptions concerning how an Exporter is configured.
+// baseExporter contains common fields between different exporter types.
 type baseExporter struct {
-	cfg          *settings
+	cfg          configmodels.Exporter
 	sender       requestSender
 	rSender      *retrySender
-	qSender      *queuedSender
+	qrSender     *queuedRetrySender
 	start        Start
 	shutdown     Shutdown
 	startOnce    sync.Once
 	shutdownOnce sync.Once
 }
 
-// Construct the internalOptions from multiple ExporterOption.
 func newBaseExporter(cfg configmodels.Exporter, options ...ExporterOption) *baseExporter {
+	opts := fromConfiguredOptions(options...)
 	be := &baseExporter{
-		cfg: &settings{
-			Exporter:        cfg,
-			TimeoutSettings: CreateDefaultTimeoutSettings(),
-			// TODO: Enable queuing by default (call CreateDefaultQueuedSettings
-			QueuedSettings: QueuedSettings{Disabled: true},
-			// TODO: Enable retry by default (call CreateDefaultRetrySettings)
-			RetrySettings: RetrySettings{Disabled: true},
-		},
-	}
-
-	for _, op := range options {
-		op(be)
-	}
-
-	if be.start == nil {
-		be.start = func(ctx context.Context, host component.Host) error { return nil }
+		cfg:      cfg,
+		start:    opts.Start,
+		shutdown: opts.Shutdown,
 	}
 
-	if be.shutdown == nil {
-		be.shutdown = func(ctx context.Context) error { return nil }
-	}
-
-	be.sender = &timeoutSender{cfg: &be.cfg.TimeoutSettings}
-
-	be.rSender = newRetrySender(&be.cfg.RetrySettings, be.sender)
-	be.sender = be.rSender
-
-	be.qSender = newQueuedSender(&be.cfg.QueuedSettings, be.sender)
-	be.sender = be.qSender
+	be.qrSender = newQueuedRetrySender(opts.QueueSettings, opts.RetrySettings, &timeoutSender{cfg: opts.TimeoutSettings})
+	be.sender = be.qrSender
 
 	return be
 }
 
+// Start all senders and exporter and is invoked during service start.
 func (be *baseExporter) Start(ctx context.Context, host component.Host) error {
 	err := componenterror.ErrAlreadyStarted
 	be.startOnce.Do(func() {
-		// First start the nextSender
+		// First start the wrapped exporter.
 		err = be.start(ctx, host)
 		if err != nil {
+			// TODO: Log errors, or check if it is recorded by the caller.
 			return
 		}
 
-		// If no error then start the queuedSender
-		be.qSender.start()
+		// If no error then start the queuedRetrySender.
+		be.qrSender.start()
 	})
 	return err
 }
 
-// Shutdown stops the nextSender and is invoked during shutdown.
+// Shutdown all senders and exporter and is invoked during service shutdown.
 func (be *baseExporter) Shutdown(ctx context.Context) error {
 	err := componenterror.ErrAlreadyStopped
 	be.shutdownOnce.Do(func() {
-		// First stop the retry goroutines
-		be.rSender.shutdown()
-
-		// All operations will try to export once but will not retry because retrying was disabled when be.rSender stopped.
-		be.qSender.shutdown()
-
-		// Last shutdown the nextSender itself.
+		// First shutdown the queued retry sender
+		be.qrSender.shutdown()
+		// Last shutdown the wrapped exporter itself.
 		err = be.shutdown(ctx)
 	})
 	return err
 }
 
+// timeoutSender is a request sender that adds a `timeout` to every request that passes this sender.
 type timeoutSender struct {
-	cfg *TimeoutSettings
+	cfg TimeoutSettings
 }
 
-func (te *timeoutSender) send(req request) (int, error) {
+// send implements the requestSender interface
+func (ts *timeoutSender) send(req request) (int, error) {
 	// Intentionally don't overwrite the context inside the request, because in case of retries deadline will not be
 	// updated because this deadline most likely is before the next one.
 	ctx := req.context()
-	if te.cfg.Timeout > 0 {
+	if ts.cfg.Timeout > 0 {
 		var cancelFunc func()
-		ctx, cancelFunc = context.WithTimeout(req.context(), te.cfg.Timeout)
+		ctx, cancelFunc = context.WithTimeout(req.context(), ts.cfg.Timeout)
 		defer cancelFunc()
 	}
 	return req.export(ctx)

exporter/exporterhelper/logshelper.go

@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ func (lexp *logsExporter) ConsumeLogs(ctx context.Context, ld data.Logs) error {
 	return err
 }
 
-// NewLogsExporter creates an LogsExporter that can record logs and can wrap every request with a Span.
+// NewLogsExporter creates an LogsExporter that records observability metrics and wraps every request with a Span.
 func NewLogsExporter(cfg configmodels.Exporter, pushLogsData PushLogsData, options ...ExporterOption) (component.LogExporter, error) {
 	if cfg == nil {
 		return nil, errNilConfig
@@ -79,9 +79,9 @@ func NewLogsExporter(cfg configmodels.Exporter, pushLogsData PushLogsData, optio
 	be := newBaseExporter(cfg, options...)
 
 	// Record metrics on the consumer.
-	be.qSender.nextSender = &logsExporterWithObservability{
+	be.qrSender.consumerSender = &logsExporterWithObservability{
 		exporterName: cfg.Name(),
-		sender:       be.qSender.nextSender,
+		sender:       be.qrSender.consumerSender,
 	}
 
 	return &logsExporter{

exporter/exporterhelper/metricshelper.go

@@ -41,8 +41,7 @@ func (mexp *metricsExporterOld) ConsumeMetricsData(ctx context.Context, md consu
 	return err
 }
 
-// NewMetricsExporterOld creates an MetricsExporter that can record metrics and can wrap every request with a Span.
-// If no internalOptions are passed it just adds the nextSender format as a tag in the Context.
+// NewMetricsExporterOld creates an MetricsExporter that records observability metrics and wraps every request with a Span.
 // TODO: Add support for retries.
 func NewMetricsExporterOld(cfg configmodels.Exporter, pushMetricsData PushMetricsDataOld, options ...ExporterOption) (component.MetricsExporterOld, error) {
 	if cfg == nil {
@@ -129,8 +128,7 @@ func (mexp *metricsExporter) ConsumeMetrics(ctx context.Context, md pdata.Metric
 	return err
 }
 
-// NewMetricsExporter creates an MetricsExporter that can record metrics and can wrap every request with a Span.
-// If no internalOptions are passed it just adds the nextSender format as a tag in the Context.
+// NewMetricsExporter creates an MetricsExporter that records observability metrics and wraps every request with a Span.
 func NewMetricsExporter(cfg configmodels.Exporter, pushMetricsData PushMetricsData, options ...ExporterOption) (component.MetricsExporter, error) {
 	if cfg == nil {
 		return nil, errNilConfig
@@ -143,9 +141,9 @@ func NewMetricsExporter(cfg configmodels.Exporter, pushMetricsData PushMetricsDa
 	be := newBaseExporter(cfg, options...)
 
 	// Record metrics on the consumer.
-	be.qSender.nextSender = &metricsSenderWithObservability{
+	be.qrSender.consumerSender = &metricsSenderWithObservability{
 		exporterName: cfg.Name(),
-		sender:       be.qSender.nextSender,
+		sender:       be.qrSender.consumerSender,
 	}
 
 	return &metricsExporter{
@@ -163,8 +161,8 @@ func (mewo *metricsSenderWithObservability) send(req request) (int, error) {
 	req.setContext(obsreport.StartMetricsExportOp(req.context(), mewo.exporterName))
 	numDroppedMetrics, err := mewo.sender.send(req)
 
-	// TODO: this is not ideal: req should come from the next function itself.
-	// 	temporarily loading req from internal format. Once full switch is done
+	// TODO: this is not ideal: it should come from the next function itself.
+	// 	temporarily loading it from internal format. Once full switch is done
 	// 	to new metrics will remove this.
 	mReq := req.(*metricsRequest)
 	numReceivedMetrics, numPoints := pdatautil.MetricAndDataPointCount(mReq.md)