ref(core): Use helpers with event envelopes

packages/core/src/request.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
-import { Event, SdkInfo, SentryRequest, SentryRequestType, Session, SessionAggregates } from '@sentry/types';
-import { dsnToString, normalize } from '@sentry/utils';
+import {
+  Event,
+  EventEnvelope,
+  EventItem,
+  SdkInfo,
+  SentryRequest,
+  SentryRequestType,
+  Session,
+  SessionAggregates,
+} from '@sentry/types';
+import { createEnvelope, dsnToString, normalize, serializeEnvelope } from '@sentry/utils';
 
 import { APIDetails, getEnvelopeEndpointWithUrlEncodedAuth, getStoreEndpointWithUrlEncodedAuth } from './api';
 
@@ -128,39 +137,21 @@ export function eventToSentryRequest(event: Event, api: APIDetails): SentryReque
   // deserialization. Instead, we only implement a minimal subset of the spec to
   // serialize events inline here.
   if (useEnvelope) {
-    const envelopeHeaders = JSON.stringify({
-      event_id: event.event_id,
+    const envelopeHeaders = {
+      event_id: event.event_id as string,
       sent_at: new Date().toISOString(),
       ...(sdkInfo && { sdk: sdkInfo }),
       ...(!!api.tunnel && { dsn: dsnToString(api.dsn) }),
-    });
-    const itemHeaders = JSON.stringify({
-      type: eventType,
-
-      // TODO: Right now, sampleRate may or may not be defined (it won't be in the cases of inheritance and
-      // explicitly-set sampling decisions). Are we good with that?
-      sample_rates: [{ id: samplingMethod, rate: sampleRate }],
-
-      // The content-type is assumed to be 'application/json' and not part of
-      // the current spec for transaction items, so we don't bloat the request
-      // body with it.
-      //
-      // content_type: 'application/json',
-      //
-      // The length is optional. It must be the number of bytes in req.Body
-      // encoded as UTF-8. Since the server can figure this out and would
-      // otherwise refuse events that report the length incorrectly, we decided
-      // not to send the length to avoid problems related to reporting the wrong
-      // size and to reduce request body size.
-      //
-      // length: new TextEncoder().encode(req.body).length,
-    });
-    // The trailing newline is optional. We intentionally don't send it to avoid
-    // sending unnecessary bytes.
-    //
-    // const envelope = `${envelopeHeaders}\n${itemHeaders}\n${req.body}\n`;
-    const envelope = `${envelopeHeaders}\n${itemHeaders}\n${req.body}`;
-    req.body = envelope;
+    };
+    const eventItem: EventItem = [
+      {
+        type: eventType,
+        sample_rates: [{ id: samplingMethod, rate: sampleRate }],
+      },
+      req.body,
+    ];
+    const envelope = createEnvelope<EventEnvelope>(envelopeHeaders, [eventItem]);
+    req.body = serializeEnvelope(envelope);
   }
 
   return req;

packages/types/src/envelope.ts

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import { ClientReport } from './clientreport';
 import { Event } from './event';
 import { SdkInfo } from './sdkinfo';
 import { Session, SessionAggregates } from './session';
+import { TransactionSamplingMethod } from './transaction';
 import { UserFeedback } from './user';
 
 // Based on: https://develop.sentry.dev/sdk/envelopes/
@@ -25,14 +26,20 @@ type BaseEnvelope<EH extends BaseEnvelopeHeaders, I extends BaseEnvelopeItem<Bas
   I[],
 ];
 
-type EventItemHeaders = { type: 'event' | 'transaction' };
+type EventItemHeaders = {
+  type: 'event' | 'transaction';
+  sample_rates: [{ id?: TransactionSamplingMethod; rate?: number }];
+};
 type AttachmentItemHeaders = { type: 'attachment'; filename: string };
 type UserFeedbackItemHeaders = { type: 'user_report' };
 type SessionItemHeaders = { type: 'session' };
 type SessionAggregatesItemHeaders = { type: 'sessions' };
 type ClientReportItemHeaders = { type: 'client_report' };
 
-export type EventItem = BaseEnvelopeItem<EventItemHeaders, Event>;
+// TODO(v7): Remove the string union from `Event | string`
+// We have to allow this hack for now as we pre-serialize events because we support
+// both store and envelope endpoints.
+export type EventItem = BaseEnvelopeItem<EventItemHeaders, Event | string>;
 export type AttachmentItem = BaseEnvelopeItem<AttachmentItemHeaders, unknown>;
 export type UserFeedbackItem = BaseEnvelopeItem<UserFeedbackItemHeaders, UserFeedback>;
 export type SessionItem =

packages/utils/src/envelope.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 import { Envelope } from '@sentry/types';
 
+import { isPrimitive } from './is';
+
 /**
  * Creates an envelope.
  * Make sure to always explicitly provide the generic to this function
@@ -33,6 +35,8 @@ export function serializeEnvelope(envelope: Envelope): string {
   // eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-explicit-any
   return (items as any[]).reduce((acc, item: typeof items[number]) => {
     const [itemHeaders, payload] = item;
-    return `${acc}\n${JSON.stringify(itemHeaders)}\n${JSON.stringify(payload)}`;
+    // We do not serialize payloads that are primitives
+    const serializedPayload = isPrimitive(payload) ? String(payload) : JSON.stringify(payload);
+    return `${acc}\n${JSON.stringify(itemHeaders)}\n${serializedPayload}`;
   }, serializedHeaders);
 }