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+/*
+ * Copyright 2018-present Open Networking Foundation
+
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+// File contains utility functions to support Open Tracing in conjunction with
+// Enhanced Logging based on context propagation
+
+package log
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"errors"
+	"github.com/opentracing/opentracing-go"
+	jtracing "github.com/uber/jaeger-client-go"
+	jcfg "github.com/uber/jaeger-client-go/config"
+	jmetrics "github.com/uber/jaeger-lib/metrics"
+	"io"
+	"os"
+)
+
+// This method will start the Tracing for a component using Component name injected from the Chart
+// The close() method on returned Closer instance should be called in defer mode to gracefully
+// terminate tracing on component shutdown
+func StartTracing() (io.Closer, error) {
+	componentName := os.Getenv("COMPONENT_NAME")
+	if componentName == "" {
+		return nil, errors.New("Unable to retrieve PoD Component Name from Runtime env")
+	}
+
+	// Use basic configuration to start with; will extend later to support dynamic config updates
+	cfg := jcfg.Configuration{}
+
+	jLoggerCfgOption := jcfg.Logger(jtracing.StdLogger)
+	jMetricsFactoryCfgOption := jcfg.Metrics(jmetrics.NullFactory)
+
+	return cfg.InitGlobalTracer(componentName, jLoggerCfgOption, jMetricsFactoryCfgOption)
+}
+
+// Extracts details of Execution Context as log fields from the Tracing Span injected into the
+// context instance. Following log fields are extracted:
+// 1. Operation Name : key as 'op-name' and value as Span operation name
+// 2. Operation Id : key as 'op-id' and value as 64 bit Span Id in hex digits string
+//
+// Additionally, any tags present in Span are also extracted to use as log fields e.g. device-id.
+//
+// If no Span is found associated with context, blank slice is returned without any log fields
+func ExtractContextAttributes(ctx context.Context) []interface{} {
+	attrMap := make(map[string]interface{})
+
+	if ctx != nil {
+		if span := opentracing.SpanFromContext(ctx); span != nil {
+			if jspan, ok := span.(*jtracing.Span); ok {
+				opname := jspan.OperationName()
+				spanid := jspan.SpanContext().SpanID().String()
+
+				attrMap["op-id"] = spanid
+				attrMap["op-name"] = opname
+
+				for k, v := range jspan.Tags() {
+					attrMap[k] = v
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
+	return serializeMap(attrMap)
+}
+
+// Utility method to convert log Fields into array of interfaces expected by zap logger methods
+func serializeMap(fields Fields) []interface{} {
+	data := make([]interface{}, len(fields)*2)
+	i := 0
+	for k, v := range fields {
+		data[i] = k
+		data[i+1] = v
+		i = i + 2
+	}
+	return data
+}