native crashes before javascript bundle load does not carry user personal info from last session

[shubhamdeol]

OS:

• [ ] Windows
• [x] MacOS
• [ ] Linux

Platform:

• [ ] iOS
• [x] Android

SDK:

• [x] @sentry/react-native (>= 1.0.0)
• [ ] react-native-sentry (<= 0.43.2)

SDK version: 5.3.1

react-native version: 0.68.5

Are you using Expo?

• [x] Yes, expo modules
• [] No

Are you using sentry.io or on-premise?

• [x] sentry.io (SaaS)
• [ ] on-premise

If you are using sentry.io, please post a link to your issue so we can take a look:

sentry issue link

Configuration:

(@sentry/react-native) js side

Sentry.init({
  dsn: 'https://...@sentry.io/...'
  autoInitializeNativeSdk: false
});

native side MainApplication.java

String sentry_dsn = dotenv.get("SENTRY_DSN");
        SentryAndroid.init(this, options -> {
            options.setDsn(sentry_dsn);
            options.setEnvironment("envName");
            options.setTag("native", "android");
            options.setBeforeSend((event, hint) -> {
                if (SentryLevel.DEBUG.equals(event.getLevel()))
                    return null;
                else
                    return event;
            });
        });

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I have following issue:

If crashes happens before javascript bundle load and captured by native init setup done in MainApplication. It does not carry user information captured in last logged in user session.

For example: If user using the app I set his user id to uniquely identify the user. If a crash occurs on next app session before js load I want to get the cached user id from previous session. I suppose this should be reported to us instead of not giving any user info on App Start crash.

Steps to reproduce:

• Load app and set user id on javascript side after user does log in.
• create a run time crash on App start on MainActivity. You can use device by zero expression to create native crash or sentry method.

Actual result:

• no user id is getting reported instead sentry randomly assigned id I am getting

Expected result:

• I expect user id known to sentry in previous session should get reported to me

[krystofwoldrich]

Hi, we currently don't support this, but we will discuss it internally and let you know.

You could add this functionally manually by saving the user information and setting it when you initialize the Android SDK.

[shubhamdeol]

Thanks for your response.

yes. I was thinking of storing user info in shared preferences and setting it when i initialise android SDK. Having this supported by Sentry could have been better.

[markushi]

Hi @shubhamdeol, thanks for providing this valuable feedback! I fully agree, ideally the SDK can handle this automatically for you. As it makes sense to implement this across all mobile SDKs, see the related issue here..

[romtsn]

@shubhamdeol we're considering a more general approach of persisting different scope information across app launches, please track it in #120