Easier way to create child spans

[aabmass]

Are there any plans to simplify the context.with() situation to make it easy to create child spans? Right now, I believe the correct way to do this is:

const currentSpan = tracer.startSpan('outer');
context.with(api.setSpan(context.active(), currentSpan), () => {
  currentSpan.setAttribute(...);
  // ...
  someOtherTraceableCode(); // spans within here should become children of currentSpan
});

In python we have tracer.start_as_current_span()) for this common case. I see this question come up a good amount on slack and I think this is probably what most users want when writing instrumentation.

[Flarna]

There is already a PR #14 and an issue where this was discussed open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js#1923.

[aabmass]

Ahh thank you, I'll lock this and check that issue I actually can't, if someone can close this, that would be great

[dyladan]

Discussions are different than issues. There is no "open" or "closed." The best thing would be to mark the answer as the accepted answer.

Conversation locking is more of a moderation mechanism. If more information comes up later I want people to be able to comment here if needed.