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Prohibit usage of enum value name strings in OTLP/JSON (#2758)
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* Prohibit usage of enum value name strings in OTLP/JSON

Resolves open-telemetry#424

This change disallows using enum value names as strings
in OTLP/JSON and requires to use enum integer values only.

* Fix grammar

Co-authored-by: Bogdan Drutu <[email protected]>
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Expand Up @@ -399,13 +399,25 @@ response headers when sending binary Protobuf encoded payload.

JSON Protobuf encoded payloads use proto3 standard defined
[JSON Mapping](https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/proto3#json)
for mapping between Protobuf and JSON, with one deviation from that mapping: the
`trace_id` and `span_id` byte arrays are represented as
[case-insensitive hex-encoded strings](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4648#section-8),
they are not base64-encoded like it is defined in the standard
[JSON Mapping](https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/proto3#json).
The hex encoding is used for `trace_id` and `span_id` fields in all OTLP
Protobuf messages, e.g. the `Span`, `Link`, `LogRecord`, etc. messages.
for mapping between Protobuf and JSON, with the following deviations from that mapping:

- The `trace_id` and `span_id` byte arrays are represented as
[case-insensitive hex-encoded strings](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4648#section-8);
they are not base64-encoded like as it is defined in the standard
[Protobuf JSON Mapping](https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/proto3#json).
The hex encoding is used for `trace_id` and `span_id` fields in all OTLP
Protobuf messages, e.g. the `Span`, `Link`, `LogRecord`, etc. messages.
For example, the `trace_id` field in a Span can be represented like this:
{ "trace_id": "5B8EFFF798038103D269B633813FC60C", ... }

- Values of enum fields MUST be encoded as integer values. Unlike the standard
[Protobuf JSON Mapping](https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/proto3#json),
which allows values of enum fields to be encoded as either integer values or as enum
name strings, only integer enum values are allowed in OTLP JSON Protobuf Encoding;
the enum name strings MUST NOT be used.
For example, the `kind` field with a value of SPAN_KIND_SERVER in a Span can be
represented like this:
{ "kind": 2, ... }

Note that according to [Protobuf specs](
https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers/docs/proto3#json) 64-bit integer
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