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All API in the package was deprecated in 0.93.0

This follows open-telemetry#9556 and uses the Meter func instead of managing the scope
in the batch processor manually. Replaces open-telemetry#9581

Signed-off-by: Alex Boten <[email protected]>

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| [Wandalen/wretry.action](https://togithub.com/Wandalen/wretry.action)
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| [actions/cache](https://togithub.com/actions/cache) | action | patch |
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##### What's Changed

- Update README.md by
[@&open-telemetry#8203;yacaovsnc](https://togithub.com/yacaovsnc) in
[https://github.com/actions/cache/pull/1304](https://togithub.com/actions/cache/pull/1304)
- Update examples by [@&open-telemetry#8203;yacaovsnc](https://togithub.com/yacaovsnc)
in
[https://github.com/actions/cache/pull/1305](https://togithub.com/actions/cache/pull/1305)
- Update actions/cache publish flow by
[@&open-telemetry#8203;bethanyj28](https://togithub.com/bethanyj28) in
[https://github.com/actions/cache/pull/1340](https://togithub.com/actions/cache/pull/1340)
- Update [@&open-telemetry#8203;actions/cache](https://togithub.com/actions/cache) by
[@&open-telemetry#8203;bethanyj28](https://togithub.com/bethanyj28) in
[https://github.com/actions/cache/pull/1341](https://togithub.com/actions/cache/pull/1341)

##### New Contributors

- [@&open-telemetry#8203;yacaovsnc](https://togithub.com/yacaovsnc) made their first
contribution in
[https://github.com/actions/cache/pull/1304](https://togithub.com/actions/cache/pull/1304)

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**Description:** 
enable lifecycle test for otlpexporter

**Link to tracking Issue:** 
fix open-telemetry#9684

Signed-off-by: Ziqi Zhao <[email protected]>

Signed-off-by: Alex Boten <[email protected]>

…ts. (open-telemetry#9635)

**Description:**
This implements support for calling `Unmarshal` on embedded structs of
structs being decoded.

**Link to tracking Issue:**
Fixes open-telemetry#6671

**Testing:**
Unit tests.

Contrib fix is open:
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib#31406

…metry#9740)

**Description:** 

Persistent queue size backup on reads should depend on readIndex, not
writeIndex.

Long story, but i'm working on updating the prometheus dependency:
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib#30934

As part of that update, we need to adapt to a change that makes the
prometheus servers' self-observability metrics independent. See
prometheus/prometheus#13507 and
prometheus/prometheus#13610

One way to adapt to this change is by adding a label to each receivers'
metrics to differentiate one Prometheus receiver from another. I've
tried taking that approach in
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib#30934,
but the current issue is that the NoOp components all have the same
name, which causes the self-observability metrics to collide.

I can work around this in the prometheus receiver's own tests, but I
can't work around the issue in the `generated_component_test.go` tests,
since those are generated.

This PR makes the ID returned by `NewNopCreateSettings` unique by giving
it a unique name.

**Link to tracking Issue:**

Part of
open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib#30883

cc @Aneurysm9

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**Description:**

Add the nopexporter. This can be helpful if a user wants to start the
Collector with a dummy pipeline to only enable extensions. It could also
be used to test Collector pipeline throughput.

**Link to tracking Issue:**

Resolves
open-telemetry#7316

**Testing:**

Added lifecycle tests; the receiver doesn't do anything.

**Documentation:**

Added a readme for the component.

cc @djaglowski @tigrannajaryan

**Description:**

Add the nopreceiver. This can be helpful if a user wants to start the
Collector with a dummy pipeline to only enable extensions. It could also
be used to start a dynamically-configured Collector that starts with no
config and waits to receive its config from a confmap.Provider that
supports reloads.

**Link to tracking Issue:**

Works toward
open-telemetry#7316

**Testing:**

Added lifecycle tests; the receiver doesn't do anything.

**Documentation:**

Added a readme for the component.

Signed-off-by: Alex Boten <[email protected]>

…fig.yml` (open-telemetry#9746)

This PR fixes an incorrect automatic replace made in the
`otel-config.yml` file in this [pull
request](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector/pull/9680/files#diff-c7c8156618a7f8126b25ca1bdfde3e172a0d2cb75c533d63a71617ae2a5c54ae)
by a bot. I've taken the previous value which seems right.

Co-authored-by: Alex Boten <[email protected]>

…ry#9730)

**Description:**  This test was out of place!

Co-authored-by: Alex Boten <[email protected]>