httpprovider

README

What is this new component httpprovider?

• An implementation of confmap.Provider for HTTP (httpprovider) allows OTEL Collector the ability to load configuration for itself by fetching and reading config files stored in HTTP servers.

How this new component httpprovider works?

• It will be called by confmap.Resolver to load configurations for OTEL Collector.
• By giving a config URI starting with prefix 'http://', this httpprovider will be used to download config files from given HTTP URIs, and then used the downloaded config files to deploy the OTEL Collector.
• In our code, we check the validity scheme and string pattern of HTTP URIs. And also check if there are any problems on config downloading and config deserialization.

Expected URI format:

• http://...

Prerequistes:

• Need to setup a HTTP server ahead, which returns with a config files according to the given URI

Documentation

Index

• func New() confmap.Provider

Functions

func New

func New() confmap.Provider

New returns a new confmap.Provider that reads the configuration from a file.

This Provider supports "http" scheme, and can be called with a "uri" that follows:

One example for http-uri be like: http://localhost:3333/getConfig

Examples: `http://localhost:3333/getConfig` - (unix, windows)