feat(platform): inject x-uipath-traceparent-id on all outbound HTTP requests (#1535)

Co-authored-by: Clement Fauchere <clement.fauchere@uipath.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Special thanks to Caleb Martin

Author: 3 people

packages/uipath-platform/pyproject.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [project]
 name = "uipath-platform"
-version = "0.1.17"
+version = "0.1.18"
 description = "HTTP client library for programmatic access to UiPath Platform"
 readme = { file = "README.md", content-type = "text/markdown" }
 requires-python = ">=3.11"

packages/uipath-platform/src/uipath/platform/common/_base_service.py

@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
     HTTPStatusError,
     Response,
 )
+from opentelemetry import trace
+from opentelemetry.trace import format_span_id, format_trace_id
 from tenacity import (
     retry,
     retry_if_exception,
@@ -61,6 +63,19 @@ def _get_caller_component() -> str:
     return ""
 
 
+_TRACE_PARENT_HEADER = "x-uipath-traceparent-id"
+
+
+def _inject_trace_context(headers: dict[str, str]) -> None:
+    """Inject UiPath trace context header from the active OTEL span."""
+    span = trace.get_current_span()
+    ctx = span.get_span_context()
+    if ctx.trace_id and ctx.span_id:
+        headers[_TRACE_PARENT_HEADER] = (
+            f"00-{format_trace_id(ctx.trace_id)}-{format_span_id(ctx.span_id)}-01"
+        )
+
+
 class BaseService:
     def __init__(
         self, config: UiPathApiConfig, execution_context: UiPathExecutionContext
@@ -106,6 +121,7 @@ def request(
 
         kwargs.setdefault("headers", {})
         kwargs["headers"][HEADER_USER_AGENT] = user_agent_value(specific_component)
+        _inject_trace_context(kwargs["headers"])
 
         override = resolve_service_url(str(url))
         if override:
@@ -150,6 +166,7 @@ async def request_async(
         kwargs["headers"][HEADER_USER_AGENT] = user_agent_value(
             self._specific_component
         )
+        _inject_trace_context(kwargs["headers"])
 
         override = resolve_service_url(str(url))
         if override: