How could I use receiver/awsxrayreceiver/internal/translator in another app?

[ojkelly]

I'm making an app[0] that's intended to be a simple deployable container/binary to extract AWS X-Ray traces and forward them to an OTEL Collector. This is particularly useful when forwarded to another vendor besides X-Ray, to get visibility into the instrumented AWS services.

This is something I could not reliably do with the existing collector, though it appears to have support for translating to and from X-Ray/OTEL.

I don't want to maintain a separate mapping, as it seems to make the most sense for all involved to share a single mapping.

The translator [1] is however, in an internal package, preventing import.

[0] https://github.com/ojkelly/xotel
[1] https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/receiver/awsxrayreceiver/internal/translator