override all configurations

Signed-off-by: ChrsMark <[email protected]>

receiver/receivercreator/README.md

@@ -543,7 +543,7 @@ operators:
   - id: container-parser
     type: container
 ```
-This default can be extended using the respective annotation:
+This default can be extended or overridden using the respective annotation:
 `io.opentelemetry.discovery.logs/config`
 
 **Example:**
@@ -553,17 +553,14 @@ io.opentelemetry.discovery.logs/config: |
   include_file_name: true
   max_log_size: "2MiB"
   operators:
+    - type: container
+      id: container-parser
     - type: regex_parser
       regex: "^(?P<time>\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2} \\d{2}:\\d{2}:\\d{2}) (?P<sev>[A-Z]*) (?P<msg>.*)$"
 ```
 
-Note that individual settings are overridden by the configuration provided by the hints while the operators list
-is extended keeping first the `container` parser. If `container` parser is explicitly set by the user the default
-will be overridden.
-
 `include` cannot be overridden and is fixed to discovered container's log file path.
 
-
 #### Support multiple target containers
 
 Users can target the annotation to a specific container by suffixing it with the name of that container:
@@ -573,6 +570,8 @@ For example:
 io.opentelemetry.discovery.logs.busybox/config: |
   max_log_size: "3MiB"
   operators:
+    - type: container
+      id: container-parser
     - id: some
       type: add
       field: attributes.tag
@@ -691,6 +690,8 @@ spec:
         io.opentelemetry.discovery.logs.redis/config: |
           max_log_size: "4MiB"
           operators:
+            - type: container
+              id: container-parser
             - id: some
               type: add
               field: attributes.tag

receiver/receivercreator/discovery.go

@@ -28,9 +28,8 @@ const (
 	scraperHint          = "scraper"
 	configHint           = "config"
 
-	logsReceiver              = "filelog"
-	defaultLogPathPattern     = "/var/log/pods/%s_%s_%s/%s/*.log"
-	filelogOperatorsConfigKey = "operators"
+	logsReceiver          = "filelog"
+	defaultLogPathPattern = "/var/log/pods/%s_%s_%s/%s/*.log"
 )
 
 // k8sHintsBuilder creates configurations from hints provided as Pod's annotations.
@@ -212,10 +211,10 @@ func createLogsConfig(
 	logPath := fmt.Sprintf(defaultLogPathPattern, namespace, podName, podUID, containerName)
 	cont := []any{map[string]any{"id": "container-parser", "type": "container"}}
 	defaultConfMap := userConfigMap{
-		"include":                 []string{logPath},
-		"include_file_path":       true,
-		"include_file_name":       false,
-		filelogOperatorsConfigKey: cont,
+		"include":           []string{logPath},
+		"include_file_path": true,
+		"include_file_name": false,
+		"operators":         cont,
 	}
 
 	configStr, found := getHintAnnotation(annotations, otelLogsHints, configHint, scopeSuffix)
@@ -228,29 +227,8 @@ func createLogsConfig(
 		logger.Debug("could not unmarshal configuration from hint", zap.Error(err))
 	}
 
-	containerOpFound := false
 	for k, v := range userConf {
-		if k == filelogOperatorsConfigKey {
-			vlist, ok := v.([]any)
-			if !ok {
-				logger.Debug("could not parse operators configuration from hint", zap.Any("config", userConf))
-			}
-			for _, op := range vlist {
-				operator, ok := op.(map[string]any)
-				if !ok {
-					logger.Debug("could not parse operator configuration from hint", zap.Any("operator", op))
-				}
-				if operator["type"] == "container" {
-					containerOpFound = true
-				}
-			}
-			if !containerOpFound {
-				// if no container operator found then just extend the list
-				// otherwise we just use the user provided operators as-is
-				vlist = append(cont, vlist...)
-			}
-			defaultConfMap[k] = vlist
-		} else if k == "include" {
+		if k == "include" {
 			// path cannot be other than the one of the target container
 			continue
 		} else {

receiver/receivercreator/discovery_test.go

@@ -230,12 +230,16 @@ func TestK8sHintsBuilderLogs(t *testing.T) {
 include_file_name: true
 max_log_size: "2MiB"
 operators:
+- type: container
+  id: container-parser
 - type: regex_parser
   regex: "^(?P<time>\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2} \\d{2}:\\d{2}:\\d{2}) (?P<sev>[A-Z]*) (?P<msg>.*)$"`
 	configNginx := `
 include_file_name: true
 max_log_size: "4MiB"
 operators:
+- type: container
+  id: container-parser
 - type: add
   field: attributes.tag
   value: beta`
@@ -614,6 +618,8 @@ func TestCreateLogsConfig(t *testing.T) {
 include_file_name: true
 max_log_size: "2MiB"
 operators:
+- type: container
+  id: container-parser
 - type: regex_parser
   regex: "^(?P<time>\\d{4}-\\d{2}-\\d{2} \\d{2}:\\d{2}:\\d{2}) (?P<sev>[A-Z]*) (?P<msg>.*)$"`
 	tests := map[string]struct {