Allow configuring observation registry directly

This changes allows configuring the observation registry directly, instead of it being fetched from the application context.
This is to allow observability when `KafkaTemplate/KafkaMessageListenerContainer` are used without an application context.

Author: cfredri4

spring-kafka/src/main/java/org/springframework/kafka/core/KafkaTemplate.java

@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@
  * @author Soby Chacko
  * @author Gurps Bassi
  * @author Valentina Armenise
+ * @author Christian Fredriksson
  */
 public class KafkaTemplate<K, V> implements KafkaOperations<K, V>, ApplicationContextAware, BeanNameAware,
 		ApplicationListener<ContextStoppedEvent>, DisposableBean, SmartInitializingSingleton {
@@ -456,6 +457,16 @@ public void setObservationConvention(KafkaTemplateObservationConvention observat
 		this.observationConvention = observationConvention;
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Configure the {@link ObservationRegistry} to use for recording observations.
+	 * @param observationRegistry the observation registry to use.
+	 * @since 3.3.1
+	 */
+	public void setObservationRegistry(ObservationRegistry observationRegistry) {
+		Assert.notNull(observationRegistry, "'observationRegistry' must not be null");
+		this.observationRegistry = observationRegistry;
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * Return the {@link KafkaAdmin}, used to find the cluster id for observation, if
 	 * present.
@@ -479,8 +490,10 @@ public void setKafkaAdmin(KafkaAdmin kafkaAdmin) {
 	@Override
 	public void afterSingletonsInstantiated() {
 		if (this.observationEnabled && this.applicationContext != null) {
-			this.observationRegistry = this.applicationContext.getBeanProvider(ObservationRegistry.class)
-					.getIfUnique(() -> this.observationRegistry);
+			if (this.observationRegistry.isNoop()) {
+				this.observationRegistry = this.applicationContext.getBeanProvider(ObservationRegistry.class)
+						.getIfUnique(() -> this.observationRegistry);
+			}
 			if (this.kafkaAdmin == null) {
 				this.kafkaAdmin = this.applicationContext.getBeanProvider(KafkaAdmin.class).getIfUnique();
 				if (this.kafkaAdmin != null) {

spring-kafka/src/main/java/org/springframework/kafka/listener/ContainerProperties.java

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 import java.util.function.Function;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
 
+import io.micrometer.observation.ObservationRegistry;
 import org.aopalliance.aop.Advice;
 import org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.ConsumerRecord;
 
@@ -281,6 +282,8 @@ public enum EOSMode {
 
 	private boolean observationEnabled;
 
+	private ObservationRegistry observationRegistry = ObservationRegistry.NOOP;
+
 	private Duration consumerStartTimeout = DEFAULT_CONSUMER_START_TIMEOUT;
 
 	private Boolean subBatchPerPartition;
@@ -716,6 +719,20 @@ public void setObservationEnabled(boolean observationEnabled) {
 		this.observationEnabled = observationEnabled;
 	}
 
+	public ObservationRegistry getObservationRegistry() {
+		return this.observationRegistry;
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Configure the {@link ObservationRegistry} to use for recording observations.
+	 * @param observationRegistry the observation registry to use.
+	 * @since 3.3.1
+	 */
+	public void setObservationRegistry(ObservationRegistry observationRegistry) {
+		Assert.notNull(observationRegistry, "'observationRegistry' must not be null");
+		this.observationRegistry = observationRegistry;
+	}
+
 	/**
 	 * Set additional tags for the Micrometer listener timers.
 	 * @param tags the tags.
@@ -1118,6 +1135,9 @@ public String toString() {
 				+ (this.observationConvention != null
 						? "\n observationConvention=" + this.observationConvention
 						: "")
+				+ (this.observationRegistry != null
+						? "\n observationRegistry=" + this.observationRegistry
+						: "")
 				+ "\n restartAfterAuthExceptions=" + this.restartAfterAuthExceptions
 				+ "\n]";
 	}

spring-kafka/src/main/java/org/springframework/kafka/listener/KafkaMessageListenerContainer.java

@@ -78,7 +78,6 @@
 
 import org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils;
 import org.springframework.beans.BeanUtils;
-import org.springframework.beans.factory.ObjectProvider;
 import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
 import org.springframework.context.ApplicationEventPublisher;
 import org.springframework.core.log.LogAccessor;
@@ -171,6 +170,7 @@
  * @author Borahm Lee
  * @author Lokesh Alamuri
  * @author Sanghyeok An
+ * @author Christian Fredriksson
  */
 public class KafkaMessageListenerContainer<K, V> // NOSONAR line count
 		extends AbstractMessageListenerContainer<K, V> implements ConsumerPauseResumeEventPublisher {
@@ -372,14 +372,15 @@ protected void doStart() {
 		}
 		GenericMessageListener<?> listener = (GenericMessageListener<?>) messageListener;
 		ListenerType listenerType = determineListenerType(listener);
-		ObservationRegistry observationRegistry = ObservationRegistry.NOOP;
-		ApplicationContext applicationContext = getApplicationContext();
-		if (applicationContext != null && containerProperties.isObservationEnabled()) {
-			ObjectProvider<ObservationRegistry> registry =
-					applicationContext.getBeanProvider(ObservationRegistry.class);
-			ObservationRegistry reg = registry.getIfUnique();
-			if (reg != null) {
-				observationRegistry = reg;
+		ObservationRegistry observationRegistry = containerProperties.getObservationRegistry();
+		if (observationRegistry.isNoop()) {
+			ApplicationContext applicationContext = getApplicationContext();
+			if (applicationContext != null && containerProperties.isObservationEnabled()) {
+				ObservationRegistry reg = applicationContext.getBeanProvider(ObservationRegistry.class)
+						.getIfUnique();
+				if (reg != null) {
+					observationRegistry = reg;
+				}
 			}
 		}
 		this.listenerConsumer = new ListenerConsumer(listener, listenerType, observationRegistry);