[HTRACE-375] LocalFileSpanReceiver should create file if local.file.span.receiver.path points to directory

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 4.1
• Component/s: core
• Assignee: Lewis John McGibbney
• Reporter: Lewis John McGibbney
• Created: 17/May/16 02:49
• Updated: 20/May/16 17:57

Description

Right now the property local.file.span.receiver.path actually requires a file on disk to be present in order for spans to be written there once the span buffer is full.
Either

• the property should be changed to local.file.span.receiver.file.path indicating that an actual FILE at a patch is required, or
• alternatively (probably my preferred option) if a path is given e.g. /data/htrace/spans, then the file htrace.log is created and spans are written there. Just like log4j does with the daily rolling file appender, after 24hrs, the file will be moved to a timestamped file and a new htrace.log will be created and written to.

What do you all think?