* Wiped out a ton of warnings about comments.
* Created consts for `MetricType` values.
* `externalInfoMap` can now track multiple series with the same name/namespace and different labels.
* `namespace` parameter of external metrics queries is now respected (albeit very rudimentarily)
* Metric converter values for external metrics are now converted the same way as for custom metrics (probably still some opportunity for consolidation).
* Lots of TODOs actually done.
* Deleted a lot of commented out code.
Fixed:
* `basicMetricLister` wasn't applying the appropriate start time because I had forgotten to set the `lookback`.
There are still a number of issues:
* The `externalPrometheusProvider` is not hooked up to the web application yet, so it doesn't serve requests.
* The namespace and label approach used in `external_info_map.go` is horrifically incorrect. It doesn't appropriately store multiple series with the same name but different labels.
* The configuration is still not updated to appropriately handle external metrics, it's sort of half-piggy-backing on the pre-existing work.
* Some bug fixes found during testing/test repair.
* Trying to tease apart the various responsibilities of `metricNamer` into smaller chunks and adding tests for each individual chunk.
* Updating the `provider_test` and `series_registry_test` to fix failures.
* Breaking out some types to make the functionality more composable and easier to digest. (e.g. `basicMetricLister` interacts with Prometheus and `periodicMetricLister` periodically invokes `basicMetricLister`.
* Pulling out some of the type embedding between `basicSeriesRegistry` and `MetricLister` to make it easier to digest.
* Deleting the `/metric-converter` code because I'm pretty certain it's not going to be necessary as things transition to using the namer-based configuration.
* Some light-ish refactoring in `metricNamer` to get some re-use out of query generation in preparation for using it with external metrics.
Notable next steps include:
* Intelligently select the aggregation method (rate/avg_over_time/etc).
* Intelligenty select the aggregation window.
* Figure out how to handle "namespace", if at all.
* Fix the crazy type conversion in `sample_converter.go`.
Working through some of the result conversions.
I want to use this code in a harness project to exercise some of it, but there are some versioning issues around my modified code vs. the current version of the real project. The easiest way to work around them at the moment is to push this.
