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Support disabling OTEL instrumentation via the a2a-sdk using an environment variable OTEL_A2A_SDK_INSTRUMENTATION_ENABLED

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Fixes #604 🦕

…s and xdist configuration to ensure module import tests can be run in the same group
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This pull request introduces a feature to disable telemetry instrumentation using an environment variable, providing more control over data collection. It also enhances the testing framework by adding pytest-xdist for parallel test execution and ensuring that telemetry tests run in isolation. The changes include modifications to the pyproject.toml file, the telemetry utility module, and the test suite.

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  • Telemetry Instrumentation Control: Adds the ability to disable OpenTelemetry instrumentation via the OTEL_A2A_SDK_INSTRUMENTATION_ENABLED environment variable.
  • Test Isolation: Introduces pytest-xdist and marks telemetry-related tests to run in an isolated group to prevent interference.
  • Dependency Updates: Updates uv.lock to include pytest-xdist and pyjwt as dependencies.
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was receiving unbound linting errors since i moved the assignment to line 132 rather than exception block.

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This pull request introduces a feature to disable OpenTelemetry instrumentation via the OTEL_A2A_SDK_INSTRUMENTATION_ENABLED environment variable. The implementation is solid, including comprehensive tests that cleverly reload the module to check the environment variable's effect. I've found one bug related to tracer initialization and have a couple of suggestions for improvement. One suggestion is to separate an unrelated dependency change into its own pull request to maintain focus. Overall, this is a great addition.


# Check if tracing is enabled via environment variable
env_value = os.getenv(ENABLED_ENV_VAR, 'true')
otel_enabled = env_value.lower() == 'true'
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The current implementation for checking the OTEL_A2A_SDK_INSTRUMENTATION_ENABLED environment variable only considers 'true' (case-insensitively) as an enabling value. While this matches the updated documentation, it's common for boolean environment variables to also accept values like '1' or 'yes'. To improve user experience and align with common conventions, consider making the check more flexible. You would also need to update the documentation to reflect this change.

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otel_enabled = env_value.lower() == 'true'
otel_enabled = env_value.lower() in ('true', '1', 'yes')

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otel_installed = False

ENABLED_ENV_VAR = 'OTEL_A2A_SDK_INSTRUMENTATION_ENABLED'

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ENABLED_ENV_VAR = 'OTEL_A2A_SDK_INSTRUMENTATION_ENABLED'
ENABLED_ENV_VAR = 'OTEL_INSTRUMENTATION_A2A_SDK_ENABLED'

Setting this to match other instrumentation env vars within the OTEL community which are prefixed by OTEL_INSTRUMENTATION_.

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[Feat]: Support disabling A2A OTEL Instrumentation

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