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feat(bigquery): add opentelemetry W3C Trace Context to headers
ldetmer Mar 25, 2026
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update to use httpheaders::set command
ldetmer Mar 26, 2026
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6 changes: 6 additions & 0 deletions ...uery/src/main/java/com/google/cloud/bigquery/telemetry/HttpTracingRequestInitializer.java
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import io.opentelemetry.api.common.AttributeKey;
import io.opentelemetry.api.trace.Span;
import io.opentelemetry.api.trace.Tracer;
import io.opentelemetry.api.trace.propagation.W3CTraceContextPropagator;
import io.opentelemetry.context.Context;
import java.io.IOException;

/**
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// No active span to exists, skip instrumentation
return;
}
// propagate the W3C Trace Context (traceID and spanID) from the active span in headers
W3CTraceContextPropagator.getInstance()
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IIUC, this is to ensure that the parent span's traceID and SpanID values are injected into the current span?

Or is this doing something different?

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no, this is just adding the traceID/spanID into a standard opentelemetry header for tracking purposes. See requirement here. Using the library ensures it pulls the current span from context and creates it following the W3C standard for header label/format.

.inject(Context.current(), request.getHeaders(), HttpHeaders::set);

addInitialHttpAttributesToSpan(span, request);

HttpResponseInterceptor originalInterceptor = request.getResponseInterceptor();
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verify(delegateInitializer, times(1)).initialize(any(HttpRequest.class));
}

@Test
public void testTraceContextIsPropagatedInHeaders() throws IOException {
HttpTransport transport = createTransport();
HttpRequest request = buildGetRequest(transport, initializer, BASE_URL);

HttpResponse response = request.execute();
response.disconnect();

assertEquals(
String.format(
"00-%s-%s-%s",
parentSpan.getSpanContext().getTraceId(),
parentSpan.getSpanContext().getSpanId(),
parentSpan.getSpanContext().getTraceFlags().asHex()),
request.getHeaders().get("traceparent"));
}

@Test
public void testDelegateInitializerIsCalled() throws IOException {
HttpRequestInitializer delegateInitializer = mock(HttpRequestInitializer.class);
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