Re: Adapted StructuredTaskScope for Context and cancellation

[Alan Bateman]

On 24/10/2025 18:40, Wesley Hill wrote:

    Thanks for writing up your experiences. What pain points would have
    remain if somehow OpenTelemetry could use ScopedValues?


Ignoring that OTel Context propagation pain point, there was the one 
other pain point related to Configuration:

  * There's no accessor with which to get the timeout configured on a
    JDK's Configuration object, and
  * Configuration.withTimeout does not allow passing null to clear an
    already-set timeout.

So we would still need our own copy of the Configuration class to 
manage the fact that we want to know the timeout to set the Deadline 
on our Context, and we don't want to pass the timeout down to 
StructuredTaskScope since we're managing cancellation our way.

Could you expand a bit on how this arises? There is no timeout by 
default so something (the composite object?) must be calling withTimeout 
to set a timeout, then something else is looking to remove it (or set it 
to Duration.ofDays(Long.MAX_VALUE), which is effectively the same 
thing). If I read your first mail correctly then the telemetry Context 
is self destructing object and the Configuration is being used to carry 
the Context deadline through to the Context, is that right?

-Alan