Crate sentry_core

Expand description

This crate provides the core of the Sentry SDK, which can be used to log events and errors.

sentry-core is meant for integration authors and third-party library authors that want to instrument their code for sentry.

Regular users who wish to integrate sentry into their applications should instead use the sentry crate, which comes with a default transport and a large set of integrations for various third-party libraries.

Core Concepts

This crate follows the Unified API guidelines and is centered around the concepts of Client, Hub and Scope, as well as the extension points via the Integration, Transport and TransportFactory traits.

Parallelism, Concurrency and Async

The main concurrency primitive is the Hub. In general, all concurrent code, no matter if multithreaded parallelism or futures concurrency, needs to run with its own copy of a Hub. Even though the Hub is internally synchronized, using it concurrently may lead to unexpected results up to panics.

For threads or tasks that are running concurrently or outlive the current execution context, a new Hub needs to be created and bound for the computation.

use rayon::prelude::*;
use sentry::{Hub, SentryFutureExt};
use std::sync::Arc;

// Parallel multithreaded code:
let outer_hub = Hub::current();
let results: Vec<_> = [1_u32, 2, 3]
    .into_par_iter()
    .map(|num| {
        let thread_hub = Arc::new(Hub::new_from_top(&outer_hub));
        Hub::run(thread_hub, || num * num)
    })
    .collect();

assert_eq!(&results, &[1, 4, 9]);

// Concurrent futures code:
let futures = [1_u32, 2, 3]
    .into_iter()
    .map(|num| async move { num * num }.bind_hub(Hub::new_from_top(Hub::current())));
let results = futures::future::join_all(futures).await;

assert_eq!(&results, &[1, 4, 9]);

For tasks that are not concurrent and do not outlive the current execution context, no new Hub needs to be created, but the current Hub has to be bound.

use sentry::{Hub, SentryFutureExt};

// Spawned thread that is being joined:
let hub = Hub::current();
let result = std::thread::spawn(|| Hub::run(hub, || 1_u32)).join();

assert_eq!(result.unwrap(), 1);

// Spawned future that is being awaited:
let result = tokio::spawn(async { 1_u32 }.bind_hub(Hub::current())).await;

assert_eq!(result.unwrap(), 1);

Minimal API

By default, this crate comes with a so-called “minimal” mode. This mode will provide all the APIs needed to instrument code with sentry, and to write sentry integrations, but it will blackhole a lot of operations.

In minimal mode some types are restricted in functionality. For instance the Client is not available and the Hub does not retain all API functionality.

Features

feature = "client": Activates the Client type and certain Hub functionality.
feature = "test": Activates the test module, which can be used to write integration tests. It comes with a test transport which can capture all sent events for inspection.
feature = "debug-logs": Uses the log crate for debug output, instead of printing to stderr. This feature is deprecated and will be replaced by a dedicated log callback in the future.

Modules

protocol

The current latest sentry protocol version.

test

This provides testing functionality for building tests.

types

This crate provides common types for working with the Sentry protocol or the Sentry server. It’s used by the Sentry Relay infrastructure as well as the rust Sentry client.