We changed envelope to 'trace_metric' to avoid ambiguity

Author: k-fish

dev-packages/browser-integration-tests/suites/public-api/metrics/simple/test.ts

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ sentryTest('should capture all metric types', async ({ getLocalTestUrl, page })
 
   expect(envelopeItems[0]).toEqual([
     {
-      type: 'metric',
+      type: 'trace_metric',
       item_count: 5,
       content_type: 'application/vnd.sentry.items.trace-metric+json',
     },

packages/core/src/metrics/envelope.ts

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ import { createEnvelope } from '../utils/envelope';
 export function createMetricContainerEnvelopeItem(items: Array<SerializedMetric>): MetricContainerItem {
   return [
     {
-      type: 'metric',
+      type: 'trace_metric',
       item_count: items.length,
       content_type: 'application/vnd.sentry.items.trace-metric+json',
     } as MetricContainerItem[0],

packages/core/src/types-hoist/envelope.ts

@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ export type EnvelopeItemType =
   | 'span'
   | 'log'
   | 'metric'
+  | 'trace_metric'
   | 'raw_security';
 
 export type BaseEnvelopeHeaders = {
@@ -102,14 +103,8 @@ type LogContainerItemHeaders = {
   content_type: 'application/vnd.sentry.items.log+json';
 };
 type MetricContainerItemHeaders = {
-  type: 'metric';
-  /**
-   * The number of metric items in the container. This must be the same as the number of metric items in the payload.
-   */
+  type: 'trace_metric';
   item_count: number;
-  /**
-   * The content type of the metric items. This must be `application/vnd.sentry.items.trace-metric+json`.
-   */
   content_type: 'application/vnd.sentry.items.trace-metric+json';
 };
 type RawSecurityHeaders = { type: 'raw_security'; sentry_release?: string; sentry_environment?: string };

packages/core/src/utils/envelope.ts

@@ -222,6 +222,7 @@ const ITEM_TYPE_TO_DATA_CATEGORY_MAP: Record<EnvelopeItemType, DataCategory> = {
   raw_security: 'security',
   log: 'log_item',
   metric: 'metric',
+  trace_metric: 'metric',
 };
 
 /**

packages/core/test/lib/metrics/envelope.test.ts

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ describe('createMetricContainerEnvelopeItem', () => {
 
     expect(result).toHaveLength(2);
     expect(result[0]).toEqual({
-      type: 'metric',
+      type: 'trace_metric',
       item_count: 2,
       content_type: 'application/vnd.sentry.items.trace-metric+json',
     });