[feature request] Add public API to retrieve target table name from TableNameMappings for a given category

[evgenyfedorov2]

Component

OpenTelemetry.Exporter.Geneva

Is your feature request related to a problem?

In my library I work with GenevaExporterOptions.TableNameMappings property, but the logic to calculate the resulting table name where each log category will be exported to is complicated and internal. Please provide public API (in the form of an extension method or something like that) so that it could return a table name for a given category.

What is the expected behavior?

Please provide public API (in the form of an extension method or something like that) so that it could return a table name for a given category.

public string ResolveTableMappingForCategoryName(this GenevaExporterOptions options, string categoryName) {...}

Which alternative solutions or features have you considered?

As a workaround, I have to duplicate/copypaste the existing internal Geneva exporter code for resolving table name for a category name

Additional context

No response

[github-actions]

Tagging component owner(s).

@cijothomas @CodeBlanch @rajkumar-rangaraj @reyang @utpilla

[xiang17]

Hi, can you elaborate what's your use case? Why would you need to get the table name via an API?

[evgenyfedorov2]

Hi, can you elaborate what's your use case? Why would you need to get the table name via an API?

Hi, I tried to explain it in the Workaround section. In our internal Microsoft library we have some code to check which Geneva table every log record is going to be exported to, and then we have some internal logic to proceed depending on the table name.
So, we don't want to copy/paste the TableNameMappings resolving logic into our codebase and then support it and try to keep it in sync with the official logic located in this repo, it is problematic. Instead, it would be great to be able to call a method (like ResolveTableMappingForCategoryName) which would return calculated target table name for provided category.