Make emitting custom events simple

[breedx-splk]

Application developers using this library want a simple and straightforward means of generating custom events. Right now, it's only possible to create custom events by jumping through a series of incantation steps, something like:

SdkEventLoggerProvider.create(rum.openTelemetry.logsBridge)
  .get(scopeName)
  .builder(eventName)
  .put(bodyField1, value1)
  ...
  .emit()

I'd like to see events become a first-class API on the OpenTelemetryRum interface, something more like:

rum.emitEvent(eventName)

which would be shorthand for something like

rum.emitEvent(name = eventName, body = body, attributes = attributes)

[RichardChukwu]

Hello @breedx-splk are you still working on this?

[breedx-splk]

Hi @RichardChukwu, I'm not. There is a lot of activity in the Logging SIG right now around the event api, and it definitely seems like the existing event API in the java core repo will change....which is fine, because the API talked about in THIS issue will sit in front of whatever the core implementation ends up looking like. In other words, this will abstract it away even more for users.

Would you like to work on this?

[RichardChukwu]

I'd like to give it a try yeah. I'm an outreachy applicant and first time contributor to this repo @breedx-splk

[breedx-splk]

I'd like to give it a try yeah. I'm an outreachy applicant and first time contributor to this repo @breedx-splk

Ok, thanks for the transparency and for offering to help! I'll go ahead and assign this to you to work on. Please review the CONTRIBUTING.md guidance and ensure that you're doing your best to submit well-tested, clean code.