**Description:**
This adds a decode hook for unmarshalling negative integers into uint
types. This will now return an error instead of converting negative
values into large uint values.
**Link to tracking Issue:** <Issue number if applicable>
Fixes#9060
**Testing:**
Added unit tests for confmap functionality, functional tests in memory
limiter processor (the original component this issue was filed against)
**Description:**
Following
https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/issues/8632,
this change introduces memory limiter as an extension. This allows
us to place the component to reject incoming connections due to limited
memory, providing better protection from running out of memory.
missing feature: receiver fairness. issue where a receiver hogs all the
resource can happen.
**Link to tracking Issue:** <Issue number if applicable>
https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/issues/8632
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Co-authored-by: Dmitry Anoshin <anoshindx@gmail.com>
Curtis Robert
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