Provide a noop Agent implementation

agent-bridge/src/main/java/com/newrelic/agent/bridge/NoOpAgent.java

@@ -27,12 +27,12 @@ private NoOpAgent() {
 
     @Override
     public Logger getLogger() {
-        return NoOpLogger.INSTANCE;
+        return com.newrelic.api.agent.Agent.noop().getLogger();
     }
 
     @Override
     public Config getConfig() {
-        return NoOpConfig.Instance;
+        return com.newrelic.api.agent.Agent.noop().getConfig();
     }
 
     @Override
@@ -57,17 +57,17 @@ public Transaction getWeakRefTransaction(boolean createIfNotExists) {
 
     @Override
     public MetricAggregator getMetricAggregator() {
-        return NoOpMetricAggregator.INSTANCE;
+        return com.newrelic.api.agent.Agent.noop().getMetricAggregator();
     }
 
     @Override
     public Insights getInsights() {
-        return NoOpInsights.INSTANCE;
+        return com.newrelic.api.agent.Agent.noop().getInsights();
     }
 
     @Override
     public ErrorApi getErrorApi() {
-        return NoOpErrorApi.INSTANCE;
+        return com.newrelic.api.agent.Agent.noop().getErrorApi();
     }
 
     @Override

newrelic-agent/src/main/java/com/newrelic/agent/AgentImpl.java

@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@
 package com.newrelic.agent;
 
 import com.newrelic.agent.bridge.AgentBridge;
-import com.newrelic.agent.bridge.NoOpMetricAggregator;
 import com.newrelic.agent.bridge.NoOpTracedMethod;
 import com.newrelic.agent.bridge.NoOpTransaction;
 import com.newrelic.agent.bridge.TracedMethod;
@@ -127,7 +126,7 @@ public MetricAggregator getMetricAggregator() {
         } catch (Throwable t) {
             Agent.LOG.log(Level.FINE, "getMetricAggregator() call failed : {0}", t.getMessage());
             Agent.LOG.log(Level.FINEST, t, "getMetricAggregator() call failed");
-            return NoOpMetricAggregator.INSTANCE;
+            return com.newrelic.api.agent.Agent.noop().getMetricAggregator();
         }
     }
 

newrelic-api/src/main/java/com/newrelic/api/agent/Agent.java

@@ -13,6 +13,13 @@
  * The New Relic Java Agent's API.
  */
 public interface Agent {
+    /**
+     * Returns a no-op instance of the Agent api.
+     * @since 8.7.1
+     */
+    static Agent noop() {
+        return NoOpAgent.INSTANCE;
+    }
 
     /**
      * Returns the current traced method. This can only be invoked within methods that are traced.

newrelic-api/src/main/java/com/newrelic/api/agent/NewRelic.java

@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ public final class NewRelic {
      * @since 3.9.0
      */
     public static Agent getAgent() {
-        return NoOpAgent.INSTANCE;
+        return Agent.noop();
     }
 
     // ************************** Metric API ****************************************//