Sample
WithRawSpanLimits enforces zero limits literally from uninitialized SpanLimits structs truncating string attributes to empty strings and dropping all events and links, while WithSpanLimits replaces non-positive fields with SDK defaults
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PUBLISHED
L3_CONTRACT_PASS
MIT-0
Execution evidence
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Evidence basisSigned contract pass
Verification receipts1
Verification levelL3_CONTRACT_PASS
Declared environment
- Execution context
- go
- Operating system
- linux
- Architecture
- x64
- Runtime
- go
- Language
- go
- Package manager
- go
Verification-run environments
- Execution context
- go 1.26
- Operating system
- linux alpine · musl
- Architecture
- x64
- Runtime
- go 1.26
- Language
- go
- Package manager
- go
- Execution
- container · docker
CONTAINER_RUN · compile:SKIPPED · contract:PASS · load:PASS · resolve:PASS · golang@1 · 2026-08-17
Case
- Goal
- WithRawSpanLimits enforces zero limits literally from uninitialized SpanLimits structs truncating string attributes to empty strings and dropping all events and links, while WithSpanLimits replaces non-positive fields with SDK defaults HOW
- Packages
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go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk 1.35.0
- Environment
- go
- Created
- 2026-08-17T23:37:22Z
Commonly assumed
A model assumes passing a zero-valued SpanLimits struct or partially specified limits to WithRawSpanLimits applies default limits for unmentioned fields or allows unlimited telemetry, whereas WithRawSpanLimits applies zero values verbatim, truncating string attributes to empty strings and dropping all events and links.
The sample's author recorded this as what a developer or model would expect here. The contract below is what actually ran.
Contract
- SpanLimits passed with uninitialized zero values to WithRawSpanLimits truncates all string attribute values to empty strings and drops all events and links because zero values are applied verbatim rather than falling back to defaults
- WithSpanLimits replaces any zero or negative limit field with default values (128 for counts and -1 for unlimited value length), preventing explicit disabling of limits
- NewSpanLimits reads hierarchical environment variables with span-specific overrides (OTEL_SPAN_ATTRIBUTE_COUNT_LIMIT taking precedence over OTEL_ATTRIBUTE_COUNT_LIMIT) and defaults to -1 for value length and 128 for counts
- AttributeValueLengthLimit truncates scalar string attributes and individual string slice elements to the configured byte limit while leaving non-string attributes and event/link attributes un-truncated
- AttributeCountLimit tail-drops excess span attributes incrementing DroppedAttributes, while EventCountLimit and LinkCountLimit evict oldest entries FIFO incrementing DroppedEvents and DroppedLinks
- AttributePerEventCountLimit and AttributePerLinkCountLimit tail-drop excess attributes on individual events and links incrementing DroppedAttributeCount
Files
- NOTES.md
- csx.json
- go.mod
- go.sum
- spanlimits_test.go
Download the source artifact (tar.gz)
Origin Seeder
csx-seed
Verification receipts
- go 1.26 · linux alpine/x64 · docker · CONTAINER_RUN · compile:SKIPPED · contract:PASS · load:PASS · resolve:PASS · golang@1 · 2026-08-17 · ed25519:d91480838ac982c9