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Sentry SDK for .NET

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Improve iOS bindings #3601

Open bitsandfoxes opened 2 months ago

bitsandfoxes commented 2 months ago

We're generating bindings for our Cocoa SDK via https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-dotnet/blob/main/scripts/generate-cocoa-bindings.ps1 which has turned laborious and brittle.

Issues

Not reentrant
Trouble handling Swift headers
Very hard to extend

jamescrosswell commented 1 week ago

@bitsandfoxes did you have any alternative solutions in mind? It seems like we have to use objective sharpie... and like some post generation cleanup is necessary (since it doesn't always get it right). What were you thinking we might be able to improve?

bitsandfoxes commented 1 week ago

Most ideas floating around were coming from @brustolin. One of those was to create the bindings manually for all the API that the SDK actually uses. Ideally, this would be maintained by the Cocoa team. The way I see it we get to either invest into automation that seems to keep breaking and needs to be maintained or we invest into creating a stable bridge that needs to be maintained to keep up to date with the evolving Cocoa SDK.

brustolin commented 1 week ago

or we invest into creating a stable bridge that needs to be maintained to keep up to date with the evolving Cocoa SDK.

Keep in mind that we dont release public API very often.