Feature request: Span operation names to include class name

[petarlishov]

Use case

Currently if you add a span to a function with the provided annotation tracer.capture_method, the created span only uses the function's name. So if it is a function within a class, say for example some implementation of an abstract class, it is hard to realise which particular method was called as there are multiple classes with the same method.

Solution/User Experience

If we include the class in the operation name of the span, I think that would be helpful. I am not really sure if I won't start doscussion on whether the full module name needs included as well, but I think in terms of usefulness, asking for the class name is a sensible middle ground that would cover most people's use cases (hopefully others don't often have the same class name within different modules of the same project)

Alternative solutions

No response

Acknowledgment

• This feature request meets Lambda Powertools Tenets
• Should this be considered in other Lambda Powertools languages? i.e. Java, TypeScript

[rubenfonseca]

Hi @petarlishov thanks for opening this. We're actively trying to prioritize this issue for our v2 release in the next couple of weeks. We will also apply a similar fix to the idempotency utility. Stay tuned :)

[leandrodamascena]

Hi @petarlishov, how are you? I'm working on it and fixing some issues in the tests before opening a PR. This feature will be included in v2 and it will take a few weeks for us to release this new version.

I was wondering if this feature is blocking something you need to work with, if so we can find a solution (as a feature flag) where you can set a custom name for the subsegment instead of getting this automatically.

Please let us know if you are comfortable waiting for v2 to be released or if an immediate solution would help your work further.

Thank you