Options: Can not set an array of events for "channels", it returns error.

[petervavro]

Hi there,

I am setting up the plugin option :
channels: ['fatal', 'error', 'warning', 'log', 'info', 'debug', 'critical'],

Getting :

{ AssertionError [ERR_ASSERTION]: Unknown event channels fatal, error, warning, log, info, debug, critical
    at module.exports.internals.Podium.internals.Podium.on.internals.Podium.addListener (/project/node_modules/podium/lib/index.js:269:10)
    at Object.exports.register (/project/node_modules/hapi-sentry/index.js:38:17)
    at internals.Server.register (/project/node_modules/hapi/lib/server.js:451:35)
    at <anonymous>
    at process._tickDomainCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:229:7)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:696:11)
    at startup (bootstrap_node.js:204:16)
    at bootstrap_node.js:625:3
  generatedMessage: false,
  name: 'AssertionError [ERR_ASSERTION]',
  code: 'ERR_ASSERTION',
  actual: false,
  expected: true,
  operator: '==' }

Let me know what is wrong please. Thanks.

[fiws]

Hi.

This option can be set to error, app or internal. The available channels are defined by hapi: https://hapijs.com/api#-request-event
We should improve the validation & documentation for this option.

The default value (error) for this options should be fine, though.
May I ask what you are trying to achieve?

[petervavro]

Thank you for the question. I am trying to send messages generated by server.log and request.log (e.g. req.log(['error'], errorObject))

How do I achieve that via this plugin please ?

[guischdi]

That's not the purpose of the hapi-sentry hapi plugin. As sentry should be used for error logging, the plugin only catches unhandled errors of the hapi route handlers. If you want to track custom error objects, you have to use on of sentrys captureEvent, captureException or captureMessage methods.

So you have three options:

1. Replace your req.log(['error'], ...)s with throws and hapi-sentry will capture it.
2. Do not use hapi-sentry but @sentry/node and use one of the methods mentioned above.
3. Use hapi-sentry to catch unhandled errors in route handler and additionally use the internal @sentry/node client to capture your own events:

const client = server.plugins['hapi-sentry'].client;
client.captureException/captureMessage/captureEvent(...);