feat: override exception type by optional error interface (#43)

Prefer TypeName as provided by go-errors/errors or a custom implementation, allowing for specific sentry titles instead of generic container names. Same stringification (like *errors.errorString) as before for anything else. Co-authored-by: Mischa Poslawsky <[email protected]>
TheZeroSlave · Oct 25, 2023 · 88b0e28 · 88b0e28
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commit 88b0e28
Showing 1 changed file with 9 additions and 1 deletion.
diff --git a/core.go b/core.go
@@ -257,7 +257,7 @@ func (c *core) addExceptionsFromError(
 
 		processedErrors[getTypeOf(err)] = struct{}{}
 
-		exception := sentry.Exception{Value: err.Error(), Type: reflect.TypeOf(err).String()}
+		exception := sentry.Exception{Value: err.Error(), Type: getTypeName(err)}
 
 		if !c.cfg.DisableStacktrace {
 			exception.Stacktrace = sentry.ExtractStacktrace(err)
@@ -278,6 +278,14 @@ func (c *core) addExceptionsFromError(
 	return exceptions
 }
 
+func getTypeName(err error) string {
+	switch cast := err.(type) {
+	case interface{ TypeName() string }:
+		return cast.TypeName()
+	}
+	return reflect.TypeOf(err).String()
+}
+
 func (c *core) hub() *sentry.Hub {
 	if c.cfg.Hub != nil {
 		return c.cfg.Hub