REST API for collecting spans

[pavolloffay]

REST API will be necessary for collecting span from a web browser.

see jaegertracing/jaeger-client-node#109

[badiib]

doing this now for thrift format with endpoint:

/api/traces?format=Jaeger.thrift as POST

as an endpoint on the collector.

[badiib]

See https://github.com/uber/jaeger/pull/156

[yurishkuro]

I don't think this is fully solved. For Browser use case we need JSON endpoint. The current binary thrift endpoint is something we need for blackbox monitoring

[badiib]

Sounds good, doing this next:

/api/traces?format=Jaeger.json as POST

[black-adder]

curious, why are we doing the "Jaeger" prefix for the format? Are we planning on supporting non-jaeger formats in the long distant future?

[badiib]

@black-adder i'd prefer to keep that open as a possibility, yes.

[badiib]

assigning to vprithvi as well, as he is doing some work on http span submissions.

[pavolloffay]

Done, implemented HTTP endpoint for collecting data in jaeger.thrift format and now we have also zipkin v1/spans endpoint.