fix(nextjs): Expose an event id when captureUnderscoreErrorException captures an exception

packages/nextjs/src/common/pages-router-instrumentation/_error.ts

@@ -13,15 +13,18 @@ type ContextOrProps = {
 /**
  * Capture the exception passed by nextjs to the `_error` page, adding context data as appropriate.
  *
+ * This will not capture the exception if the status code is < 500 or if the pathname is not provided and will thus not return an event ID.
+ *
  * @param contextOrProps The data passed to either `getInitialProps` or `render` by nextjs
+ * @returns The Sentry event ID, or `undefined` if no event was captured
  */
-export async function captureUnderscoreErrorException(contextOrProps: ContextOrProps): Promise<void> {
+export async function captureUnderscoreErrorException(contextOrProps: ContextOrProps): Promise<string | undefined> {
   const { req, res, err } = contextOrProps;
 
   // 404s (and other 400-y friends) can trigger `_error`, but we don't want to send them to Sentry
   const statusCode = res?.statusCode || contextOrProps.statusCode;
   if (statusCode && statusCode < 500) {
-    return Promise.resolve();
+    return;
   }
 
   // In previous versions of the suggested `_error.js` page in which this function is meant to be used, there was a
@@ -32,18 +35,18 @@ export async function captureUnderscoreErrorException(contextOrProps: ContextOrP
   // twice, we just bail if we sense we're in that now-extraneous second call. (We can tell which function we're in
   // because Nextjs passes `pathname` to `getInitialProps` but not to `render`.)
   if (!contextOrProps.pathname) {
-    return Promise.resolve();
+    return;
   }
 
-  withScope(scope => {
+  const eventId = withScope(scope => {
     if (req) {
       const normalizedRequest = httpRequestToRequestData(req);
       scope.setSDKProcessingMetadata({ normalizedRequest });
     }
 
     // If third-party libraries (or users themselves) throw something falsy, we want to capture it as a message (which
     // is what passing a string to `captureException` will wind up doing)
-    captureException(err || `_error.js called with falsy error (${err})`, {
+    return captureException(err || `_error.js called with falsy error (${err})`, {
       mechanism: {
         type: 'auto.function.nextjs.underscore_error',
         handled: false,
@@ -55,4 +58,6 @@ export async function captureUnderscoreErrorException(contextOrProps: ContextOrP
   });
 
   waitUntil(flushSafelyWithTimeout());
+
+  return eventId;
 }

packages/nextjs/test/common/pages-router-instrumentation/captureUnderscoreErrorException.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,117 @@
+import { afterEach, beforeEach, describe, expect, it, vi } from 'vitest';
+import { captureUnderscoreErrorException } from '../../../src/common/pages-router-instrumentation/_error';
+
+const mockCaptureException = vi.fn(() => 'test-event-id');
+const mockWithScope = vi.fn((callback: (scope: any) => any) => {
+  const mockScope = {
+    setSDKProcessingMetadata: vi.fn(),
+  };
+  return callback(mockScope);
+});
+
+vi.mock('@sentry/core', async () => {
+  const actual = await vi.importActual('@sentry/core');
+  return {
+    ...actual,
+    captureException: (...args: unknown[]) => mockCaptureException(...args),
+    withScope: (callback: (scope: any) => any) => mockWithScope(callback),
+    httpRequestToRequestData: vi.fn(() => ({ url: 'http://test.com' })),
+  };
+});
+
+vi.mock('../../../src/common/utils/responseEnd', () => ({
+  flushSafelyWithTimeout: vi.fn(() => Promise.resolve()),
+  waitUntil: vi.fn(),
+}));
+
+describe('captureUnderscoreErrorException', () => {
+  beforeEach(() => {
+    vi.clearAllMocks();
+  });
+
+  afterEach(() => {
+    vi.clearAllMocks();
+  });
+
+  it('should return the event ID when capturing an exception', async () => {
+    const error = new Error('Test error');
+    const result = await captureUnderscoreErrorException({
+      err: error,
+      pathname: '/test',
+      res: { statusCode: 500 } as any,
+    });
+
+    expect(result).toBe('test-event-id');
+    expect(mockCaptureException).toHaveBeenCalledWith(error, {
+      mechanism: {
+        type: 'auto.function.nextjs.underscore_error',
+        handled: false,
+        data: {
+          function: '_error.getInitialProps',
+        },
+      },
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('should return undefined for 4xx status codes', async () => {
+    const result = await captureUnderscoreErrorException({
+      err: new Error('Not found'),
+      pathname: '/test',
+      res: { statusCode: 404 } as any,
+    });
+
+    expect(result).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(mockCaptureException).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it('should return undefined when pathname is not provided (render call)', async () => {
+    const result = await captureUnderscoreErrorException({
+      err: new Error('Test error'),
+      res: { statusCode: 500 } as any,
+    });
+
+    expect(result).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(mockCaptureException).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it('should capture falsy errors as messages', async () => {
+    const result = await captureUnderscoreErrorException({
+      err: undefined,
+      pathname: '/test',
+      res: { statusCode: 500 } as any,
+    });
+
+    expect(result).toBe('test-event-id');
+    expect(mockCaptureException).toHaveBeenCalledWith('_error.js called with falsy error (undefined)', {
+      mechanism: {
+        type: 'auto.function.nextjs.underscore_error',
+        handled: false,
+        data: {
+          function: '_error.getInitialProps',
+        },
+      },
+    });
+  });
+
+  it('should use statusCode from contextOrProps when res is not available', async () => {
+    const result = await captureUnderscoreErrorException({
+      err: new Error('Test error'),
+      pathname: '/test',
+      statusCode: 500,
+    });
+
+    expect(result).toBe('test-event-id');
+    expect(mockCaptureException).toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
+  it('should return undefined when statusCode from contextOrProps is 4xx', async () => {
+    const result = await captureUnderscoreErrorException({
+      err: new Error('Bad request'),
+      pathname: '/test',
+      statusCode: 400,
+    });
+
+    expect(result).toBeUndefined();
+    expect(mockCaptureException).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+});