Create an internal package

This is for types we don't want to export but which are used in
different packages within client_golang.

Currently, that's only NormalizeMetricFamilies (used in the prometheus
package and in the testutil package). More to be added as needed.

Signed-off-by: beorn7 <beorn@soundcloud.com>

prometheus/internal/metric.go

@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+// Copyright 2018 The Prometheus Authors
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+// You may obtain a copy of the License at
+//
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+//
+// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+// limitations under the License.
+
+package internal
+
+import (
+	"sort"
+
+	dto "github.com/prometheus/client_model/go"
+)
+
+// metricSorter is a sortable slice of *dto.Metric.
+type metricSorter []*dto.Metric
+
+func (s metricSorter) Len() int {
+	return len(s)
+}
+
+func (s metricSorter) Swap(i, j int) {
+	s[i], s[j] = s[j], s[i]
+}
+
+func (s metricSorter) Less(i, j int) bool {
+	if len(s[i].Label) != len(s[j].Label) {
+		// This should not happen. The metrics are
+		// inconsistent. However, we have to deal with the fact, as
+		// people might use custom collectors or metric family injection
+		// to create inconsistent metrics. So let's simply compare the
+		// number of labels in this case. That will still yield
+		// reproducible sorting.
+		return len(s[i].Label) < len(s[j].Label)
+	}
+	for n, lp := range s[i].Label {
+		vi := lp.GetValue()
+		vj := s[j].Label[n].GetValue()
+		if vi != vj {
+			return vi < vj
+		}
+	}
+
+	// We should never arrive here. Multiple metrics with the same
+	// label set in the same scrape will lead to undefined ingestion
+	// behavior. However, as above, we have to provide stable sorting
+	// here, even for inconsistent metrics. So sort equal metrics
+	// by their timestamp, with missing timestamps (implying "now")
+	// coming last.
+	if s[i].TimestampMs == nil {
+		return false
+	}
+	if s[j].TimestampMs == nil {
+		return true
+	}
+	return s[i].GetTimestampMs() < s[j].GetTimestampMs()
+}
+
+// NormalizeMetricFamilies returns a MetricFamily slice with empty
+// MetricFamilies pruned and the remaining MetricFamilies sorted by name within
+// the slice, with the contained Metrics sorted within each MetricFamily.
+func NormalizeMetricFamilies(metricFamiliesByName map[string]*dto.MetricFamily) []*dto.MetricFamily {
+	for _, mf := range metricFamiliesByName {
+		sort.Sort(metricSorter(mf.Metric))
+	}
+	names := make([]string, 0, len(metricFamiliesByName))
+	for name, mf := range metricFamiliesByName {
+		if len(mf.Metric) > 0 {
+			names = append(names, name)
+		}
+	}
+	sort.Strings(names)
+	result := make([]*dto.MetricFamily, 0, len(names))
+	for _, name := range names {
+		result = append(result, metricFamiliesByName[name])
+	}
+	return result
+}

prometheus/registry.go

@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ import (
 	"github.com/golang/protobuf/proto"
 
 	dto "github.com/prometheus/client_model/go"
+
+	"github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus/internal"
 )
 
 const (
@@ -527,7 +529,7 @@ func (r *Registry) Gather() ([]*dto.MetricFamily, error) {
 			break
 		}
 	}
-	return normalizeMetricFamilies(metricFamiliesByName), errs.MaybeUnwrap()
+	return internal.NormalizeMetricFamilies(metricFamiliesByName), errs.MaybeUnwrap()
 }
 
 // processMetric is an internal helper method only used by the Gather method.
@@ -707,72 +709,7 @@ func (gs Gatherers) Gather() ([]*dto.MetricFamily, error) {
 			}
 		}
 	}
-	return normalizeMetricFamilies(metricFamiliesByName), errs.MaybeUnwrap()
+	return internal.NormalizeMetricFamilies(metricFamiliesByName), errs.MaybeUnwrap()
-}
-
-// metricSorter is a sortable slice of *dto.Metric.
-type metricSorter []*dto.Metric
-
-func (s metricSorter) Len() int {
-	return len(s)
-}
-
-func (s metricSorter) Swap(i, j int) {
-	s[i], s[j] = s[j], s[i]
-}
-
-func (s metricSorter) Less(i, j int) bool {
-	if len(s[i].Label) != len(s[j].Label) {
-		// This should not happen. The metrics are
-		// inconsistent. However, we have to deal with the fact, as
-		// people might use custom collectors or metric family injection
-		// to create inconsistent metrics. So let's simply compare the
-		// number of labels in this case. That will still yield
-		// reproducible sorting.
-		return len(s[i].Label) < len(s[j].Label)
-	}
-	for n, lp := range s[i].Label {
-		vi := lp.GetValue()
-		vj := s[j].Label[n].GetValue()
-		if vi != vj {
-			return vi < vj
-		}
-	}
-
-	// We should never arrive here. Multiple metrics with the same
-	// label set in the same scrape will lead to undefined ingestion
-	// behavior. However, as above, we have to provide stable sorting
-	// here, even for inconsistent metrics. So sort equal metrics
-	// by their timestamp, with missing timestamps (implying "now")
-	// coming last.
-	if s[i].TimestampMs == nil {
-		return false
-	}
-	if s[j].TimestampMs == nil {
-		return true
-	}
-	return s[i].GetTimestampMs() < s[j].GetTimestampMs()
-}
-
-// normalizeMetricFamilies returns a MetricFamily slice with empty
-// MetricFamilies pruned and the remaining MetricFamilies sorted by name within
-// the slice, with the contained Metrics sorted within each MetricFamily.
-func normalizeMetricFamilies(metricFamiliesByName map[string]*dto.MetricFamily) []*dto.MetricFamily {
-	for _, mf := range metricFamiliesByName {
-		sort.Sort(metricSorter(mf.Metric))
-	}
-	names := make([]string, 0, len(metricFamiliesByName))
-	for name, mf := range metricFamiliesByName {
-		if len(mf.Metric) > 0 {
-			names = append(names, name)
-		}
-	}
-	sort.Strings(names)
-	result := make([]*dto.MetricFamily, 0, len(names))
-	for _, name := range names {
-		result = append(result, metricFamiliesByName[name])
-	}
-	return result
 }
 
 // checkSuffixCollisions checks for collisions with the “magic” suffixes the

prometheus/testutil/testutil.go

@@ -18,13 +18,13 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"reflect"
-	"sort"
 
 	"github.com/prometheus/common/expfmt"
 
 	dto "github.com/prometheus/client_model/go"
 
 	"github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus"
+	"github.com/prometheus/client_golang/prometheus/internal"
 )
 
 // CollectAndCompare registers the provided Collector with a newly created
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ func GatherAndCompare(g prometheus.Gatherer, expected io.Reader, metricNames ...
 		return fmt.Errorf("parsing expected metrics failed: %s", err)
 	}
 
-	if !reflect.DeepEqual(metrics, normalizeMetricFamilies(expectedMetrics)) {
+	if !reflect.DeepEqual(metrics, internal.NormalizeMetricFamilies(expectedMetrics)) {
 		// Encode the gathered output to the readable text format for comparison.
 		var buf1 bytes.Buffer
 		enc := expfmt.NewEncoder(&buf1, expfmt.FmtText)
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ func GatherAndCompare(g prometheus.Gatherer, expected io.Reader, metricNames ...
 		// the registry does to spot differences more easily.
 		var buf2 bytes.Buffer
 		enc = expfmt.NewEncoder(&buf2, expfmt.FmtText)
-		for _, mf := range normalizeMetricFamilies(expectedMetrics) {
+		for _, mf := range internal.NormalizeMetricFamilies(expectedMetrics) {
 			if err := enc.Encode(mf); err != nil {
 				return fmt.Errorf("encoding result failed: %s", err)
 			}
@@ -100,64 +100,3 @@ func filterMetrics(metrics []*dto.MetricFamily, names []string) []*dto.MetricFam
 	}
 	return filtered
 }
-
-// The below sorting code is copied form the Prometheus client library modulo the added
-// label pair sorting.
-// https://github.com/prometheus/client_golang/blob/ea6e1db4cb8127eeb0b6954f7320363e5451820f/prometheus/registry.go#L642-L684
-
-// metricSorter is a sortable slice of *dto.Metric.
-type metricSorter []*dto.Metric
-
-func (s metricSorter) Len() int {
-	return len(s)
-}
-
-func (s metricSorter) Swap(i, j int) {
-	s[i], s[j] = s[j], s[i]
-}
-
-func (s metricSorter) Less(i, j int) bool {
-	sort.Sort(prometheus.LabelPairSorter(s[i].Label))
-	sort.Sort(prometheus.LabelPairSorter(s[j].Label))
-
-	if len(s[i].Label) != len(s[j].Label) {
-		return len(s[i].Label) < len(s[j].Label)
-	}
-
-	for n, lp := range s[i].Label {
-		vi := lp.GetValue()
-		vj := s[j].Label[n].GetValue()
-		if vi != vj {
-			return vi < vj
-		}
-	}
-
-	if s[i].TimestampMs == nil {
-		return false
-	}
-	if s[j].TimestampMs == nil {
-		return true
-	}
-	return s[i].GetTimestampMs() < s[j].GetTimestampMs()
-}
-
-// normalizeMetricFamilies returns a MetricFamily slice with empty
-// MetricFamilies pruned and the remaining MetricFamilies sorted by name within
-// the slice, with the contained Metrics sorted within each MetricFamily.
-func normalizeMetricFamilies(metricFamiliesByName map[string]*dto.MetricFamily) []*dto.MetricFamily {
-	for _, mf := range metricFamiliesByName {
-		sort.Sort(metricSorter(mf.Metric))
-	}
-	names := make([]string, 0, len(metricFamiliesByName))
-	for name, mf := range metricFamiliesByName {
-		if len(mf.Metric) > 0 {
-			names = append(names, name)
-		}
-	}
-	sort.Strings(names)
-	result := make([]*dto.MetricFamily, 0, len(names))
-	for _, name := range names {
-		result = append(result, metricFamiliesByName[name])
-	}
-	return result
-}