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Provide ability to add HTTP server response headers, with Tomcat implementation #7990

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This allows custom distributions of the agent to register HttpServerResponseCustomizer implementations. When a supported HTTP server instrumentation starts processing a response, the onStart method of all registered implementations will be invoked with the Context of the SERVER span, an instrumentation-specific response object and HttpServerResponseMutator instance that allows appending headers to that response.

The intent of this is to allow custom distributions to set a header containing span context information, such as the trace and span IDs. As such, the initial implementation only allows appending response headers and nothing else.

The HttpServerResponseCustomizer and related classes are currently in a subpackage of the io.opentelemetry.javaagent.bootstrap package in javaagent-extension-api. This makes them get loaded in the bootstrap classloader, thus directly accessible from instrumentations. I am not aware if there is an elegant way to put it in the agent classloader instead, yet have the same instance accessible from both AgentInstaller and instrumentations.

This also includes Tomcat-specific implementation in order to be able to demonstrate that it works, and add automated testing of this to HttpServerTest including one implementation.

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@CanIgnoreReturnValue
public HttpServerTestOptions setHasResponseCustomizer(
Predicate<ServerEndpoint> hasResponseCustomizer) {
this.hasResponseCustomizer = hasResponseCustomizer;
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Is there really a need for a Predicate? Is there any scenario where a boolean wouldn't work?

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This can be useful in cases where there is no specific support for an appserver directly, so some built-in error pages might not be handled, but we still expect the servlet fallback to handle it for most endpoints.

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I think this PR resolves #5353 the best way we can - since there is no standard (yet) for returning the trace information in HTTP server response, we let users implement it by themselves via extensions.

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