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authorRichard van der Hoff <richard@matrix.org>2018-01-15 16:58:41 +0000
committerRichard van der Hoff <richard@matrix.org>2018-01-15 17:04:39 +0000
commit992018d1c07a727e54c4ad5b4079f5f5de8fec5d (patch)
treeb8851dea543c0b384c1d0b604edc5d98ff2adf21 /synapse/metrics
parentAdd some comments to metrics classes (diff)
downloadsynapse-992018d1c07a727e54c4ad5b4079f5f5de8fec5d.tar.xz
mechanism to render metrics with alternative names
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-rw-r--r--synapse/metrics/metric.py53
1 files changed, 40 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/synapse/metrics/metric.py b/synapse/metrics/metric.py
index c5f0bcbc15..f480aae614 100644
--- a/synapse/metrics/metric.py
+++ b/synapse/metrics/metric.py
@@ -17,24 +17,33 @@
 from itertools import chain
 
 
-# TODO(paul): I can't believe Python doesn't have one of these
-def map_concat(func, items):
-    # flatten a list-of-lists
-    return list(chain.from_iterable(map(func, items)))
+def flatten(items):
+    """Flatten a list of lists
+
+    Args:
+        items: iterable[iterable[X]]
+
+    Returns:
+        list[X]: flattened list
+    """
+    return list(chain.from_iterable(items))
 
 
 class BaseMetric(object):
     """Base class for metrics which report a single value per label set
     """
 
-    def __init__(self, name, labels=[]):
+    def __init__(self, name, labels=[], alternative_names=[]):
         """
         Args:
             name (str): principal name for this metric
             labels (list(str)): names of the labels which will be reported
                 for this metric
+            alternative_names (iterable(str)): list of alternative names for
+                 this metric. This can be useful to provide a migration path
+                when renaming metrics.
         """
-        self.name = name
+        self._names = [name] + list(alternative_names)
         self.labels = labels  # OK not to clone as we never write it
 
     def dimension(self):
@@ -55,6 +64,22 @@ class BaseMetric(object):
                       for k, v in zip(self.labels, values)])
         )
 
+    def _render_for_labels(self, label_values, value):
+        """Render this metric for a single set of labels
+
+        Args:
+            label_values (list[str]): values for each of the labels
+            value: value of the metric at with these labels
+
+        Returns:
+            iterable[str]: rendered metric
+        """
+        rendered_labels = self._render_key(label_values)
+        return (
+            "%s%s %.12g" % (name, rendered_labels, value)
+            for name in self._names
+        )
+
     def render(self):
         """Render this metric
 
@@ -110,11 +135,11 @@ class CounterMetric(BaseMetric):
     def inc(self, *values):
         self.inc_by(1, *values)
 
-    def render_item(self, k):
-        return ["%s%s %.12g" % (self.name, self._render_key(k), self.counts[k])]
-
     def render(self):
-        return map_concat(self.render_item, sorted(self.counts.keys()))
+        return flatten(
+            self._render_for_labels(k, self.counts[k])
+            for k in sorted(self.counts.keys())
+        )
 
 
 class CallbackMetric(BaseMetric):
@@ -131,10 +156,12 @@ class CallbackMetric(BaseMetric):
         value = self.callback()
 
         if self.is_scalar():
-            return ["%s %.12g" % (self.name, value)]
+            return list(self._render_for_labels([], value))
 
-        return ["%s%s %.12g" % (self.name, self._render_key(k), value[k])
-                for k in sorted(value.keys())]
+        return flatten(
+            self._render_for_labels(k, value[k])
+            for k in sorted(value.keys())
+        )
 
 
 class DistributionMetric(object):