Basictracer Python

A python version of the "BasicTracer" reference implementation for OpenTracing.

The examples/ directory contains a sample of how the BasicTracer implementation could be used to display spans in the console.

Development

Protocol Buffers

This project uses Protocol Buffers for serializing tracing data. The protobuf definition is in the proto/wire.proto file. If you need to regenerate the Python code from the proto file, see the instructions in proto/README.md.

Tests

virtualenv env
. ./env/bin/activate
make bootstrap
make test

You can use tox to run tests as well.

tox

Releases

Before new release, add a summary of changes since last version to CHANGELOG.rst

pip install zest.releaser[recommended]
prerelease
release
git push origin master --follow-tags
python setup.py sdist upload -r pypi
postrelease
git push

Licensing

Apache 2.0 License.