v1: serialize span links as structured data and honor baggage tag config.

[AlexeyKuznetsov-DD]

What Does This Do

Replaces the v1 trace payload's CoreSpan.processTagsAndBaggage(consumer, injectLinksAsTags, injectBaggageAsTags) with a purpose-named processTagsAndBaggageWithStructuredLinks(consumer):

• Span links stay structured — v1 serializes links as first-class data and no longer flattens them into the _dd.span_links tag (injectLinksAsTags = false).
• Baggage-as-tags now follows tracer config — v1 previously hard-coded injectBaggageAsTags = false; it now respects the configured value, aligning v1 with the v0.4/V0.5 paths.
• Drops the now-unused 3-arg overload from CoreSpan (replaced by a default method), DDSpan, DDSpanContext, and the test doubles (SimpleSpan, TraceGenerator).

On the test side:

• Adds real-span v1 coverage in DDSpanSerializationTest.java (structured links not flattened; configured baggage tags).
• Extracts the duplicated msgpack v1 decoder into a shared V1PayloadReader, now used by both DDSpanSerializationTest and TraceMapperV1PayloadTest.

Motivation

system-tests failed on my branch when I enabled v1 by default for tests in Test_Headers_Baggage_Span_Tags.

Additional Notes

Verified:

• ./gradlew :dd-trace-core:test --tests DDSpanSerializationTest --tests TraceMapperV1PayloadTest passes; spotlessApply clean.
• system-tests passed locally: DD_TRACE_DEBUG=true TEST_LIBRARY=java ./run.sh PARAMETRIC tests/parametric/test_headers_baggage.py --force-dd-trace-debug with both modes: v1 or v04 enabled.

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🟡 Java Benchmark SLOs — Performance SLO warning (near threshold)

Suite	Status
Startup	🟡 warning

SLO thresholds are defined here based on automatically generated metrics. A warning is raised when results are within 5% of the threshold.

PR vs. master results

Scenario	Candidate	master	Δ (95% CI of mean)
startup:insecure-bank:iast:Agent	13.95 s	13.92 s	[-0.4%; +0.8%] (no difference)
startup:insecure-bank:tracing:Agent	12.85 s	12.98 s	[-1.6%; -0.3%] (maybe better)
startup:petclinic:appsec:Agent	17.38 s	17.15 s	[+0.2%; +2.5%] (maybe worse)
startup:petclinic:iast:Agent	17.37 s	17.47 s	[-1.4%; +0.3%] (no difference)
startup:petclinic:profiling:Agent	17.44 s	17.39 s	[-0.8%; +1.4%] (no difference)
startup:petclinic:sca:Agent	17.50 s	17.28 s	[+0.4%; +2.1%] (maybe worse)
startup:petclinic:tracing:Agent	16.57 s	16.24 s	[-2.4%; +6.4%] (no difference)

Commit: 504c57b3 · CI Pipeline · Benchmarking Platform UI

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[mcculls]

+1, good cleanup

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