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This commit addresses an issue where local variables were not being captured for out-of-app frames.

The localVariablesSyncIntegration had a race condition where it would process events before the debugger session was fully initialized. This was fixed by awaiting the session creation in setupOnce.

Additionally, this PR adds tests for the localVariablesAsyncIntegration to ensure it correctly handles the includeOutOfAppFrames option.

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This commit addresses an issue where local variables were not being captured for out-of-app frames, even when the `includeOutOfAppFrames` option was enabled.

The `localVariablesSyncIntegration` had a race condition where it would process events before the debugger session was fully initialized. This was fixed by awaiting the session creation in `setupOnce`.

The tests for this integration were failing because they were not setting up a Sentry client, which is required for the integration to be enabled. This has been corrected by adding a client to the test setup.

Additionally, this commit adds tests for the `localVariablesAsyncIntegration` to ensure it correctly handles the `includeOutOfAppFrames` option.
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Potential bug: Changing setupOnce to async violates the integration interface contract. The framework calls it synchronously, reintroducing a race condition where events are silently ignored during initialization.
  • Description: The Integration interface defines setupOnce as a synchronous method, but it was changed to be async. The integration framework calls this method without await, causing the initialization logic inside to run in the background. While this async operation is pending, a shouldProcessEvent flag remains false. Consequently, any events received by processEvent during this startup window are silently ignored instead of being processed. This reintroduces the exact race condition the change was intended to fix, causing the integration to silently fail to capture variables for an indeterminate period.

  • Suggested fix: Revert setupOnce to a synchronous function to adhere to the interface contract. If asynchronous initialization is required, consider an alternative approach, such as queuing events within the integration until the async setup is complete, rather than making the setupOnce hook itself asynchronous.
    severity: 0.85, confidence: 0.98

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The `LocalVariables` integrations `setupOnce` method was `async`, which violates the `Integration` interface. This caused a race condition where events could be processed before the integration was fully initialized, leading to missed local variables.

This commit fixes the race condition by:
- Making `setupOnce` synchronous to adhere to the interface contract.
- Moving the asynchronous initialization logic to a separate `setup` function.
- Making `processEvent` asynchronous and awaiting the result of the `setup` function, ensuring that the integration is fully initialized before processing any events.
- Updating the tests to correctly `await` the `processEvent` method.
@mydea mydea changed the title Fix local variables capturing for out-of-app frames fix(node): Fix local variables capturing for out-of-app frames Sep 8, 2025
@AbhiPrasad AbhiPrasad requested a review from timfish September 11, 2025 11:34
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Thank you for the PR @JealousGx!

This needs to be a feat(node) because we are adding a new includeOutOfAppFrames. Only feedback is around testing strategy, implementation looks good!

// // TEST-ONLY: allow tests to access the cache

import type { LRUMap } from '@sentry/core';
import type { FrameVariables } from './common';
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I would prefer if we didn't do this (and not add unit tests). Instead I'd like us to add tests under our node integration tests to validate this: https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-javascript/tree/develop/dev-packages/node-integration-tests/suites/public-api/LocalVariables

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@JealousGx JealousGx changed the title fix(node): Fix local variables capturing for out-of-app frames feat(node): Fix local variables capturing for out-of-app frames Sep 13, 2025
@rodolfoBee rodolfoBee requested review from a team and Lms24 and removed request for a team September 17, 2025 09:12
@mydea mydea removed the request for review from a team September 17, 2025 12:26
/* eslint-disable no-unused-vars */

const Sentry = require('@sentry/node');
// const { loggingTransport } = require('@sentry-internal/node-integration-tests'); is throwing error that package not found, so using relative path
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This shouldn't be happening, are you running yarn build in the root of the repo? You might have to run yarn clean and delete node modules to get stuff in a good state.

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Well, unfortunately, it's happening even after clean installation and building.

The steps I took:

  • Delete root node_modules directory
  • yarn
  • yarn clean
  • yarn build
  • Make sure to import loggingTransport from @sentry-internal/node-integration-tests
  • DEBUG=true yarn workspace @sentry-internal/node-integration-tests test -- LocalVariables

You will get this error:

Error: Cannot find module '/Users/my-pc/sentry-javascript/node_modules/@sentry-internal/node-integration-tests/build/cjs/index.js'. Please verify that the package.json has a valid "main" entry
    at tryPackage (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:515:19)
    at Function._findPath (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:800:18)
    at Function._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1391:27)
    at defaultResolveImpl (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1061:19)
    at resolveForCJSWithHooks (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1066:22)
    at Function._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1215:37)
    at TracingChannel.traceSync (node:diagnostics_channel:322:14)
    at wrapModuleLoad (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:235:24)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1491:12)
    at require (node:internal/modules/helpers:135:16) {
  code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',
  path: '/Users/my-pc/sentry-javascript/node_modules/@sentry-internal/node-integration-tests/package.json',
  requestPath: '@sentry-internal/node-integration-tests'
}

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I wonder if the issue is yarn workspace, if you cd into the directory and run the tests there directly do you get the same issues? I'm unfortunately not able to reproduce.

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Alright yeah. My bad. I was building in the root directory. I should've run the build command in the node-integration-tests directory as well. Working fine now. Let's wait for @timfish for their reply to the last comment now.

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const Sentry = require('@sentry/node');
// const { loggingTransport } = require('@sentry-internal/node-integration-tests'); is throwing error that package not found, so using relative path
const { loggingTransport } = require('../../../src/index.ts');

// make sure to create the following file with the following content:
// function out_of_app_function() {
// const outOfAppVar = 'out of app value';
// throw new Error('out-of-app error');
// }

// module.exports = { out_of_app_function };
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This is far too brittle, but not sure how to best do this. Maybe @timfish you have some ideas?

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We can either do this or use beforeSend method in the init to modify the frames and include the necessary details. If there are other ways to achieve this, we could try them as well.

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