Support hints

[marandaneto]

Description

This is needed for #1460 and #2650
Also for https://develop.sentry.dev/sdk/features/#http-client-errors -> PR
Hints are part of the Unified API.
Hints are generally a Map<String, Any>, on Java leverage the data bag with a typed class with helper methods.

[philipphofmann]

If we add an overload for beforeSend with a hint we can do this without a breaking change.

[philipphofmann]

On Java, we have typed hints. I think that would be better than having a Map<String, Any>.

[marandaneto]

On Java, we have typed hints. I think that would be better than having a Map<String, Any>.

Yes, it used to be a Map, now it is a typed Hint, which is better.

[philipphofmann]

Hints must allow capturing stacktraces only for one event if capture stacktraces is disabled in the options, as requested in #3386.

[marcelofabri]

Thanks, @philipphofmann! Can you expand a little bit more on how much of a priority this is from Sentry's point of view and what should we expect in terms of timeline? 🙏

[kahest]

@marcelofabri We bumped the priority because we have more data points that hints would be a useful addition for some use cases. We don't plan to tackle this within the next few weeks at the moment so don't have a specific timeline, but we'd want to land this within the next months.

[sebastienboisvert]

Any updates on this? The (in)ability to add attachments to crash reports may be a deal-breaker for us.

[philipphofmann]

@sebastienboisvert, no sadly no updates yet. What is your use case for adding attachments to crash reports? Maybe there is already a working solution covering your use case.

[sebastienboisvert]

@philipphofmann as mentioned in some of the linked issues, we'd like to include text logs as an attachment as part of the crash report.

As an alternative I'm looking to see if there's a way to upload an attachment separately through the REST API (still reading through the docs).

[philipphofmann]

@sebastienboisvert, if your text logs aren't huge, you could consider adding breadcrumbs in before the SDK sends the crash event.