datasette/docs
Alex Garcia 8d32eac895 Name every span and attribute once, in a registry the docs are built from
The span and attribute names were string literals spread across four call
sites in database.py and one in app.py, with a hand-written reference page
that would have been true only on the day it was written. That drift is not
hypothetical: an earlier iteration of this work carried a README asserting
parameter values were never recorded for two branches after that had stopped
being true.

datasette/telemetry_registry.py now holds each name once, with its
documentation. Attribute and SpanName subclass str, so a registry entry *is*
the string OpenTelemetry wants - no wrapper API over the OTel calls, no
parallel structure to keep in step, and a typo becomes an ImportError rather
than a silently misnamed attribute. docs/internals.rst renders the span
reference from it via cog, and `cog --check docs/*.rst` already runs in CI,
so the reference cannot drift from the definitions.

Nothing changes on the wire: the emitted span names and attribute keys are
byte-identical before and after, verified by diffing a dump of both.

tests/test_telemetry_registry.py exercises a real workload and compares it
against the registry in both directions - emitted-but-unregistered catches
instrumentation added without documentation, registered-but-never-emitted
catches documentation that has outlived its code. Because the call sites now
take their names from the registry, neither direction can catch a rename:
move DB_NAMESPACE to "db.namespace2" and code and registry still agree while
every dashboard breaks. So the literal names are also written out in the test
and asserted against the registry and against the wire separately. That pair
is the only comparison in the file not derived from the registry itself.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-01 16:24:35 -07:00
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_static Add favicon to documentation (#1967) 2022-12-31 11:00:31 -08:00
_templates Drop jQuery dependency 2023-03-26 16:38:58 -07:00
.gitignore Added initial docs, including a changelog 2017-11-16 07:11:00 -08:00
authentication.rst Better permission debug tools and documentation 2026-07-14 08:40:07 -07:00
auto-build.sh Added --load-extension argument to datasette serve 2017-11-16 08:48:49 -08:00
binary_data.rst Support BLOB values in row edit UI 2026-07-03 16:09:27 -07:00
changelog.rst Release 1.0a38 2026-08-06 11:20:25 -07:00
cli-reference.rst max_post_body_bytes setting, enforced for reuest.post_body() 2026-07-03 17:42:39 -07:00
codespell-ignore-words.txt Move Metadata to --internal database 2024-06-11 09:33:23 -07:00
conf.py Upgrade to ruff>=0.16.0 (#2857) 2026-07-25 15:47:08 -07:00
configuration.rst textarea column type 2026-06-13 22:18:45 -07:00
contributing.rst Add cache-busted static asset helper (#2804) 2026-06-23 13:44:58 -07:00
csv_export.rst Use shot-scraper images from datasette-screenshots repo, closes #1844 2022-10-14 12:57:00 -07:00
custom_templates.rst Improve docs structure for static(), refs #2804, #2800 2026-06-23 13:59:01 -07:00
datasette-0.51.png Release 0.51 2020-10-31 15:21:49 -07:00
datasette-logo.svg Added new logo to the documentation 2020-07-12 12:53:29 -07:00
deploying.rst Add test for RST heading underline lengths, closes #2544 2025-10-26 09:49:49 -07:00
ecosystem.rst Shrunk ecosystem docs in favour of datasette.io, closes #1182 2021-01-09 14:17:18 -08:00
events.md RenameTableEvent, plus write connection track_event() mechanism (#2682) 2026-03-30 11:20:46 -07:00
facets.rst Move table configuration docs from metadata.rst to configuration.rst (#2668) 2026-03-17 08:47:04 -07:00
full_text_search.rst Move table configuration docs from metadata.rst to configuration.rst (#2668) 2026-03-17 08:47:04 -07:00
getting_started.rst Replace Glitch with Codespaces, closes #2488 2025-05-28 19:17:22 -07:00
index.rst Generated template context documentation, closes #1510 2026-06-11 07:47:15 -07:00
installation.rst Remove Datasette Desktop from installation guide 2026-07-07 14:04:46 -07:00
internals.rst Name every span and attribute once, in a registry the docs are built from 2026-09-01 16:24:35 -07:00
introspection.rst /-/plugins.json is now an array of objects again (#2843) 2026-07-13 21:19:04 -07:00
javascript_plugins.rst Better docs for makeJumpSections() 2026-06-14 16:28:09 -07:00
json_api.rst /-/jump is a stable documented endpoint, not a debug exemption 2026-07-07 00:25:09 +00:00
json_api_doc.py Upgrade to ruff>=0.16.0 (#2857) 2026-07-25 15:47:08 -07:00
Makefile Document custom json encoder (#1996) 2026-06-23 16:24:03 -07:00
metadata.rst Move table configuration docs from metadata.rst to configuration.rst (#2668) 2026-03-17 08:47:04 -07:00
metadata_doc.py Upgrade to ruff>=0.16.0 (#2857) 2026-07-25 15:47:08 -07:00
pages.rst Unify page-size parameters on _size with table semantics 2026-07-04 17:54:03 +00:00
performance.rst Release 0.63a1 2022-10-23 20:07:09 -07:00
plugin_hooks.rst Return 401 for invalid or expired bearer tokens 2026-07-04 15:18:12 +00:00
plugins.rst Advise plugin authors on naming secret configuration keys 2026-07-06 23:09:10 +00:00
publish.rst Remove all remaining "$ " prefixes from docs, closes #2140 2023-08-11 10:44:34 -07:00
settings.rst max_post_body_bytes setting, enforced for reuest.post_body() 2026-07-03 17:42:39 -07:00
spatialite.rst Renamed canned queries to queries / stored queries in docs 2026-05-26 15:17:51 -07:00
sql_queries.rst Return 400 for write canned-query SQL failures 2026-07-04 14:35:54 +00:00
telemetry_doc.py Name every span and attribute once, in a registry the docs are built from 2026-09-01 16:24:35 -07:00
template_context.rst Remove the next_url extra - the key is always present 2026-07-06 23:59:53 +00:00
template_context_doc.py Upgrade to ruff>=0.16.0 (#2857) 2026-07-25 15:47:08 -07:00
testing_plugins.rst datasette.fixtures module, closes #2733 2026-05-21 23:05:37 -07:00
upgrade-1.0a20.md Renamed canned queries to queries / stored queries in docs 2026-05-26 15:17:51 -07:00
upgrade_guide.md Replace token-based CSRF with Sec-Fetch-Site header protection (#2689) 2026-04-14 17:11:36 -07:00
writing_plugins.rst Add cache-busted static asset helper (#2804) 2026-06-23 13:44:58 -07:00