AWS Lambda Top Level Statement Support

[jnordtorp-foreflight]

Are you requesting automatic instrumentation for a framework or library? Please describe.
In the net6 runtime for aws lambda, they added support for top level statements. See

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Using top level statements, we change the function handler to only contain the assembly, but when initializing the tracer for serverless operation, the constructor expects the function handler to be formated as A::B::C, where as now we only provide A.

Describe the solution you'd like
We would like support for using lambda top level statements

[andrewlock]

Hi @jnordtorp-foreflight, thanks for flagging this. This is something we'd like to support, but it's unfortunately rather complex, so I can't give anytimelines. cc @purple4reina for visibility

[lukeemery]

@andrewlock It is something that datadog needs to support. More critically though, we need guidance on how to manually instrument lambdas while still using top level functions.

[alancosta-iress]

This pending change will affect anyone writing their dotnet core minimal API's with AWS' own hosting library

We are on the cusp of deciding whether to:

• downgrade to the older way of configuring hosting, so we get DataDog tracing
• keeping it as is without DataDog tracing, on the hope this issue would be resolved soon
• yet to to discuss some other possibility

Understandable that you can't give any timelines, but how about a notion of how this is being prioritised? Is that possible? We would really appreciate at least a time range with which we could work with.

Thank you!

[joeterlecki]

We have a dozen dotnet minimal apis and are also looking for this to be implemented. To echo what others are stating, AWS library is also using top-level statements and assembly references for handlers moving forward.

[jamiewinder]

I've just encountered this issue. Has anyone found a workaround, or an alternative way of structuring an ASP.NET Core project that is compatible?

[tristanharms-cb]

Don't want to +1 this thread too much, but I'm also running into this issue. Has there been any progress on this since it's been assigned?

[joeyzhao2018]

Poll
+1 on 🚀 If you use ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs. i.e. like this template
+1 on 👀 If you use top-level statements but NOT Asp.net core. i.e. like this template.

[joeterlecki]

Poll +1 on 🚀 If you use ASP.NET Core Minimal APIs. i.e. like this template +1 on 👀 If you use top-level statements but NOT Asp.net core. i.e. like this template.

We actually use top level statements in both minimal APIs and console type apps.

This feature should support Top-level statements regarding the type of project. When creating serverless API's a single use function is just a console application. So there is a function for at the minimal for each method type (Get, PUT, Delete ect) Then its not uncommon to have separate functions for Get USER vs Get USERS