Original Exception not included as part of the hint when triggering the beforeSend function

[dcarabott]

Environment

SaaS (https://sentry.io/)

Steps to Reproduce

When capturing an exception manually, the eventHint.originalException is not being set before triggering the beforeSend function.

client.captureException(exception);

captureException signature is "captureException(exception, hint, scope)"

this will internally call

 this._captureEvent(event, hint, scope) -> this._processEvent(event, hint, scope)

and _processEvent calls the processBeforeSend without modifying hint:

processBeforeSend(options, prepared, hint)

Expected Result

Hint to include the original exception before triggering beforeSend

Actual Result

The beforeSend function has no access to the originalException.

Product Area

Unknown

Link

No response

DSN

No response

Version

JS SDK Version: 7.119.2

[getsantry]

Assigning to @getsentry/support for routing ⏲️

[InterstellarStella]

Hi @dcarabott which SDK package and version are you using?

[dcarabott]

Hi @InterstellarStella, we're using the JS SDK through the CDN link. Version right now is 7.119.2.

[InterstellarStella]

Thank you @dcarabott , I'm routing this to the JS repo.

[mydea]

Hey, this is not the recommended usage of the client. If you want to directly capture an event for a specific client, you need to bind this client to a scope and call methods from it. See https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/javascript/best-practices/multiple-sentry-instances/ for details, but basically:

const client = new BrowserClient({
 // .. your client here
});

const scope = new Scope();
scope.setClient(client);

client.init(); // initializing has to be done after setting the client on the scope

// You can capture exceptions manually for this client like this:
scope.captureException(new Error("example"));