graphql-engine/server/src-lib/Hasura/Tracing/Context.hs
Antoine Leblanc cf531b05cb Rewrite Tracing to allow for only one TraceT in the entire stack.
This PR is on top of #7789.

### Description

This PR entirely rewrites the API of the Tracing library, to make `interpTraceT` a thing of the past. Before this change, we ran traces by sticking a `TraceT` on top of whatever we were doing. This had several major drawbacks:
- we were carrying a bunch of `TraceT` across the codebase, and the entire codebase had to know about it
- we needed to carry a second class constraint around (`HasReporterM`) to be able to run all of those traces
- we kept having to do stack rewriting with `interpTraceT`, which went from inconvenient to horrible
- we had to declare several behavioral instances on `TraceT m`

This PR rewrite all of `Tracing` using a more conventional model: there is ONE `TraceT` at the bottom of the stack, and there is an associated class constraint `MonadTrace`: any part of the code that happens to satisfy `MonadTrace` is able to create new traces. We NEVER have to do stack rewriting, `interpTraceT` is gone, and `TraceT` and `Reporter` become  implementation details that 99% of the code is blissfully unaware of: code that needs to do tracing only needs to declare that the monad in which it operates implements `MonadTrace`.

In doing so, this PR revealed **several bugs in the codebase**: places where we were expecting to trace something, but due to the default instance of `HasReporterM IO` we would actually not do anything. This PR also splits the code of `Tracing` in more byte-sized modules, with the goal of potentially moving to `server/lib` down the line.

### Remaining work

This PR is a draft; what's left to do is:
- [x] make Pro compile; i haven't updated `HasuraPro/Main` yet
- [x] document Tracing by writing a note that explains how to use the library, and the meaning of "reporter", "trace" and "span", as well as the pitfalls
- [x] discuss some of the trade-offs in the implementation, which is why i'm opening this PR already despite it not fully building yet
- [x] it depends on #7789 being merged first

PR-URL: https://github.com/hasura/graphql-engine-mono/pull/7791
GitOrigin-RevId: cadd32d039134c93ddbf364599a2f4dd988adea8
2023-03-13 17:38:39 +00:00

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module Hasura.Tracing.Context
( TraceContext (..),
TraceMetadata,
)
where
import Data.Aeson ((.=))
import Data.Aeson qualified as J
import Hasura.Prelude
import Hasura.Tracing.Sampling
import Hasura.Tracing.TraceId
-- | Any additional human-readable key-value pairs relevant
-- to the execution of a block of code.
type TraceMetadata = [(Text, Text)]
-- | A trace context records the current active trace, the active span
-- within that trace, and the span's parent, unless the current span
-- is the root.
data TraceContext = TraceContext
{ tcCurrentTrace :: TraceId,
tcCurrentSpan :: SpanId,
tcCurrentParent :: Maybe SpanId,
tcSamplingState :: SamplingState
}
-- Should this be here? This implicitly ties Tracing to the name of fields in HTTP headers.
instance J.ToJSON TraceContext where
toJSON TraceContext {..} =
let idFields =
[ "trace_id" .= bsToTxt (traceIdToHex tcCurrentTrace),
"span_id" .= bsToTxt (spanIdToHex tcCurrentSpan)
]
samplingFieldMaybe =
samplingStateToHeader @Text tcSamplingState <&> \t ->
"sampling_state" .= t
in J.object $ idFields ++ maybeToList samplingFieldMaybe