Support IPv6 transport for Jaeger agent (thrift over UDP) export

[plajjan]

Describe your environment
I'm trying to use an application that uses the OpenTelemetry library to export trace data to Jaeger. The Jaeger agent is not running in the same container as the application and there is only IPv6 connectivity to the Jaeger agent, thus, IPv6 is used. However, it does not work and leads to a traceback.

The code shown linked here is IPv4 only capable as it hard codes AF_INET:

opentelemetry-python/exporter/opentelemetry-exporter-jaeger/src/opentelemetry/exporter/jaeger/send/thrift.py

Line 76 in bd8db6e

with socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM) as udp_socket:

Steps to reproduce
Configure an IPv6 address as the agent export host and run your program, which will crash as the address family provided to the socket (AF_INET) is inconsistent with the address (AF_INET6).

What is the expected behavior?
Data should be exported to Jaeger as normal but over an IPv6 socket.

What is the actual behavior?

<ERROR> 27-Jan-2021::17:47:49.939 opentelemetry.sdk.trace.export MainThread: - Exception while exporting Span.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/var/opt/ncs/packages/opentelemetry-exporter/pyvenv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/opentelemetry/sdk/trace/export/__init__.py", line 83, in on_end
    self.span_exporter.export((span,))
  File "/var/opt/ncs/packages/opentelemetry-exporter/pyvenv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/opentelemetry/exporter/jaeger/__init__.py", line 181, in export
    self.agent_client.emit(batch)
  File "/var/opt/ncs/packages/opentelemetry-exporter/pyvenv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/opentelemetry/exporter/jaeger/__init__.py", line 427, in emit
    udp_socket.sendto(buff, self.address)
socket.gaierror: [Errno -9] Address family for hostname not supported

Additional context

[github-actions]

This issue was marked stale due to lack of activity. It will be closed in 30 days.

[plajjan]

No staley stale. It's still a problem and I think it should be solved!

[srikanthccv]

FYI #3158