Now-successful attempt at a Phoenix integration test

opencensus_honeycomb_phoenix_integration_test.exs

defmodule Opencensus.Honeycomb.PhoenixIntegrationTest do
  use ExUnit.Case, async: false
  use Phoenix.ConnTest

  alias Jason
  alias Opencensus.Honeycomb.Event
  alias Opencensus.Honeycomb.Sampler

  defmodule HelloWeb.OpencensusTracePlug do
    use Opencensus.Plug.Trace, attributes: [:release]

    def release(_conn) do
      %{
        branch: "master",
        commit: "ae9e6d8"
      }
    end
  end

  defmodule HelloWeb.Router do
    use Plug.Router

    plug(:match)
    plug(:dispatch)

    Plug.Router.get "/ctx" do
      {:span_ctx, trace_id, span_id, _, _} = :ocp.current_span_ctx()
      body = Jason.encode!(%{"trace_id" => trace_id, "span_id" => span_id})

      conn
      |> Plug.Conn.put_resp_header("content-type", "application/json")
      |> send_resp(200, body)
    end

    match _ do
      send_resp(conn, 404, "oops")
    end
  end

  defmodule HelloWeb.Endpoint do
    # We need an OTP app to host Phoenix, and ours has strong opinions about its configuration, so:
    use Phoenix.Endpoint, otp_app: :opencensus

    def init(_), do: {:ok, []}

    plug(HelloWeb.OpencensusTracePlug)
    # ... your usual chain...
    # plug(Plug.Static)
    # plug(Phoenix.CodeReloader)
    # ...
    plug(HelloWeb.Router)
  end

  setup _ do
    :ok = Application.ensure_started(:mime)
    :ok = Application.ensure_started(:plug_crypto)
    :ok = Application.ensure_started(:plug)
    :ok = Application.ensure_started(:opencensus_honeycomb)
    start_supervised!(HelloWeb.Endpoint, [])

    handle_event = fn n, measure, meta, _ -> IO.inspect({n, measure, meta}) end
    :telemetry.attach_many("test", Sender.telemetry_events(), handle_event, nil)

    {:ok, []}
  end

  test "Phoenix integration" do
    conn =
      Phoenix.ConnTest.build_conn(:get, "/ctx")
      |> HelloWeb.Endpoint.call([])

    assert %{
             "span_id" => span_id,
             "trace_id" => trace_id
           } = json_response(conn, 200)

    assert is_integer(trace_id)
    assert is_integer(span_id)
  end
end

I'd love to know how to start Phoenix and simulate a request without having to set up a Phoenix app. Feel free to delete TestWeb.OpencensusTracePlug.

Solved. Also requires this config snippet:

if Mix.env() == :test do
  # We need an OTP app to host Phoenix, and ours has strong opinions about its configuration, so:
  config :opencensus, Opencensus.Honeycomb.PhoenixIntegrationTest.HelloWeb.Endpoint,
    debug_errors: true,
    secret_key_base: 30 |> :crypto.strong_rand_bytes() |> Base.encode32(),
    json_library: Jason,
    url: [host: "localhost"]

  config :opencensus,
    reporters: [{Opencensus.Honeycomb.Reporter, []}],
    send_interval_ms: 5
end