Dynamic environments & native init (sentry.options.json)

[victorhenrion]

Problem Statement

The recent useNativeInit config plugin option allows initializing Sentry on the native side via sentry.options.json before JS runs. However, there's currently no way to dynamically specify the environment field dynamically.

While calling Sentry.init() in JS allows overwriting the environment, but pre-JS crashes would still be tagged with an incorrect (hardcoded) environment.

Solution Brainstorm

• Get environment from SENTRY_ENVIRONMENT env variable
• Get environment environment config plugin option
• Dynamic config file like sentry.options.js

Are you willing to submit a PR?

None

[linear-code]

RN-531

[antonis]

Thank you for raising this and your suggestions @victorhenrion 🙇
We will investigate this and iterate back.
A workaround could be to create environment-specific files and copy them before building. Something like:

  {
    "scripts": {
      "prebuild:prod": "cp sentry.options.production.json sentry.options.json",
      "prebuild:staging": "cp sentry.options.staging.json sentry.options.json"
    }
  }

[antonis]

Heads up that a fix for this has been shipped with https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-react-native/releases/tag/8.4.0