The new plugin uses a newer version of animalsniffer, allows overriding
the animalsniffer version used, and has up-to-date handling. The
up-to-date handling cuts fully incremental parallel build times in half,
from 5.5s to 2.7s.
The previous plugin was supposed to be verifying tests. However, either
it wasn't verifying them or its verification was broken.
In upstream, Census is renamed to "Instrumentation". `com.google.census` is renamed to `com.google.instrumentation.stats`.
In gRPC, "census" in every name is replaced by "stats".
Highlights
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StatsTraceContext
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The bridge between gRPC library and Census. It keeps track of the total
payload sizes and the elapsed time of a Call. The rest of the gRPC code
doesn't invoke Census directly.
Context propagation
-------------------
StatsTraceContext carries CensusContext (and the upcoming TraceContext)
and is attached to the gRPC Context.
1. StatsTraceContext is created by ManagedChannelImpl, by calling
createClientContext(), which inherits the current CensusContext if available.
2. ManagedChannelImpl passes StatsTraceContext to ClientCallImpl, then
to the stream, then to the framer and deframer explicitly.
3. ClientCallImpl propagates the CensusContext to the headers.
1. ServerImpl creates a StatsTraceContext by implementing a new callback
method StatsTraceContext methodDetermined(MethodDescriptor, Metadata) on
ServerTransportListener.
2. NettyServerHandler calls methodDetermined() before creating the
stream, and passes the StatsTraceContext to the stream.
3. When ServerImpl creates the gRPC Context for the new ServerCall, it
calls the new method statsTraceContext() on ServerStream and puts the
StatsTraceContext in the Context.
Metrics recording
-----------------
1. Client-side start time: when ClientCallImpl is created
2. Server-side start time: when methodDetermined() is called
3. Server-side end time: in ServerStreamListener.closed(), but before
calling onComplete() or onCancel() on ServerCall.Listener.
4. Client-side end time: in ClientStreamListener.closed(), but before
calling onClonse() on ClientCall.Listener
Message sizes are recorded in MessageFramer and MessageDeframer. Both
the uncompressed and wire (possibly compressed) payload sizes are
counted.
TODOs
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The CensusContext created from headers on the server side should be
attached to the gRPC Context for the call. It's not done at this moment
because Census lacks the proper API to do it. It only affects tracing
and resource accounting, but doesn't affect stats functionality
The Context API is not particularly gRPC-specific, and will be used by
Census as its context propagation mechanism.
Removed all dependencies to make it easy for other libraries to depend
on.
This is lower-level than the existing AbstractTransportTest. It should
be used by all transports, but InProcessTransport is the only one as
part of this commit.
Bogdan Drutu
Eric Anderson
Kun Zhang
Kun Zhang
Carl Mastrangelo
nmittler