private async _createMetricDescriptorIfNeeded()

in packages/opentelemetry-cloud-monitoring-exporter/src/monitoring.ts [240:267]

• 27 lines of code
• 3 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

  private async _createMetricDescriptorIfNeeded(
    metric: MetricData
  ): Promise<boolean> {
    const authClient = await this._authorize();
    const descriptor = transformMetricDescriptor(metric, this._metricPrefix);
    const projectIdPath = mountProjectIdPath(this._projectId as string);

    try {
      const descriptorExists = await this._checkIfDescriptorExists(
        descriptor,
        projectIdPath,
        authClient
      );
      if (!descriptorExists) {
        await this._monitoring.projects.metricDescriptors.create({
          name: projectIdPath,
          requestBody: descriptor,
          auth: authClient,
        });
        diag.debug('sent metric descriptor', descriptor);
      }
      return true;
    } catch (e) {
      const err = asError(e);
      diag.error('Failed to create metric descriptor: %s', err.message);
      return false;
    }
  }