Indicate the otlploghttp exporter must be created by the New method (#5521)

XSAM · web-flow · commit 418f19d341a6 · 2024-06-27T11:41:05.000+02:00
The empty Exporter would cause panics.
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -42,8 +42,9 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.htm
 - Prevent random number generation data-race for experimental rand exemplars in `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/metric`. (#5456)
 - Fix counting number of dropped attributes of `Record` in `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/sdk/log`. (#5464)
 - Fix panic in baggage creation when a member contains 0x80 char in key or value. (#5494)
-- Correct comments for the priority of the `WithEndpoint` and `WithEndpointURL` options and their coresponding environment variables in  in `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace/otlptracegrpc`. (#5508)
+- Correct comments for the priority of the `WithEndpoint` and `WithEndpointURL` options and their corresponding environment variables in `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlptrace/otlptracegrpc`. (#5508)
 - Fix stale timestamps reported by the lastvalue aggregation. (#5517)
+- Indicate the `Exporter` in `go.opentelemetry.io/otel/exporters/otlp/otlplog/otlploghttp` must be created by the `New` method. (#5521)
 
 ## [1.27.0/0.49.0/0.3.0] 2024-05-21
 
diff --git a/exporters/otlp/otlplog/otlploghttp/exporter.go b/exporters/otlp/otlplog/otlploghttp/exporter.go
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import (
 
 // Exporter is a OpenTelemetry log Exporter. It transports log data encoded as
 // OTLP protobufs using HTTP.
+// Exporter must be created with [New].
 type Exporter struct {
 	client  atomic.Pointer[client]
 	stopped atomic.Bool
