This is, sadly, the only way to avoid a breaking change. The cost is
that anyone using exemplars has to perform a type assertion. This is,
however, a common pattern where interfaces turn out to need additional
methods in a stable library or only some implementations can provide
the additional methods (AKA "interface upgrade").
Needless to say that in v2 of this library, we'll do things in a more
straight forward way.
Signed-off-by: beorn7 <beorn@grafana.com>
Contrary to the code comment, I see no `basicMetricVec` implementation.
Grep'ing this project shows this is the only reference. So I suspect
it's an outdated comment and can be removed to minimize confusion.
I'm unclear whether other parts of that comment are also incorrect and
need updating.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Widman <jeff@jeffwidman.com>
The `const separatorByte` wasn't used anymore actually. In `vec.go`,
we were using `model.SeparatorByte`, which is better anyway. So remove
the unused constant and initialize `separatorByteSlice` with
`model.SeparatorByte`, too.
Signed-off-by: beorn7 <beorn@grafana.com>
One might argue that supporting the newest Pushgateway is just an
enhancement or even a bugfix (and this should be v1.1.1, which would
be a really nice version number). I decided to go for a positive view
of things and call it a feature. If something else changes its
behavior, it's not really a bug from client_golang's point of view.
Signed-off-by: beorn7 <beorn@grafana.com>
The part after the underscore has to be lowercase. Otherwise, it is
seen as the name of a Go type, which doesn't exist, which will result
in the example not showing up in godoc.
Signed-off-by: beorn7 <beorn@grafana.com>
This is a much stronger hash function than fnv64a and comparably fast
(with super-fast assembly implementation for amd64).
Performance is not critical here anyway.
The old fnv64a is kept for vectors, where collision detection is in
place and the weakness of the hashing doesn't matter that much. I
implemented a vector version with xxhash and found that xxhash is
slower in all cases except very very high cardinality (where it is
only slightly faster). Also, ``xxhash.New`` comes with an allocation
of 80 bytes. Thus, to keep vectors alloc-free, we needed to add a
`sync.Pool`, which would have an additional performance overhead.
Signed-off-by: beorn7 <beorn@grafana.com>
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