EventBuilder missing method for logging a Throwable

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The current Java API for EventBuilder allows me to send an event where I can set the message and log level, but it is missing a method for adding a Throwable for the event.

In Android I log non fatal exception using a Logcat wrapper. In this wrapper I also send events to Sentry, but I currently can’t send the message and log level along with the exception.

Any chance we can have this added?

Thanks!

// Erik

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any update on this? I’m in the process of integrating Sentry into my app and I have just run into this shortfall… is it being worked on? is there another way?

Currently I am using this:
Sentry.capture(“my log message”)
Sentry.capture(Throwable)

but that just doesn’t feel right…

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So… I have found the solution/workaround

One first needs to create an EventBuilder, and on this EventBuilder one needs to call the following methods(all of them are optional):

  • withLogger(…) : as far as I can tell this is the thing that is reporting the error
  • withMessage(…): this is to add your message
  • withLevel(Event.Level.?): to set the level of the error ie: Error, Debug etc…
  • withSentryInterface(new ExceptionInterface(throwable))): This is to add your Exception Throwable

and then one would call Sentry.capture(yourEventBuilder) // Note we do not call .build() on the EventBuilder, this is to allow Sentry to add any further details that one may have configured to be added.

I hope this helps someone in the future, I really don’t know why, in over a year, a Sentry official has not posted this solution here…

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This seems like the correct approach to me.
Except that logger shouldn’t be mandatory.
If it currently is, we should likely update the SDK.

Usually a capture with a throwable would use the values of it to set the message and also by default set e error level. Reason why it’s sort of uncommon to set message/level with a throwable.