fix: prevent shared mutable defaults for span attributes and events - #909
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Signed-off-by: Cagri Yonca <cagri@ibm.com>
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Summary
Fixes #896
This PR resolves an issue where
InstanaSpanandReadableSpanused mutable default arguments (events = []andattributes = {}), causing all spans created without explicit events/attributes to share the same process-global list. This led to:Eventobjects retained indefinitely).Changes
eventsandattributesdefault values toNoneinInstanaSpan.__init__andReadableSpan.__init__.ReadableSpan.__init__to instantiate fresh lists/dicts vialist(events)anddict(attributes).self.span.events.clear()) that previously masked this behavior.eventsandattributes.Testing
tests/span/pass.InstanaSpan.__init__shares one mutable defaulteventslist across every span - resulting in unbounded CPU / memory growth #896 reproduction scripts.