Event timestamp serialization from JSON

[arend-melissant-tnt]

Package

Sentry

.NET Flavor

.NET

.NET Version

8.0

OS

Any (not platform specific)

SDK Version

4.0.0

Self-Hosted Sentry Version

No response

Steps to Reproduce

read envelope from incoming message (using sentry-cli send-event)
deserialize envelope using var envelope = await Envelope.DeserializeAsync(stream);

this will throw an exception: The requested operation requires an element of type 'String', but the target element has type 'Number'.

this is an the "timestamp" element of the event payload

Expected Result

timestamp should deserialize with either a string or number (per SDK)

Actual Result

Exception thrown

[bruno-garcia]

read envelope from incoming message (using sentry-cli send-event)
deserialize envelope using var envelope = await Envelope.DeserializeAsync(stream);

There might be something to fix here but to to clarify: An envelope and an event are different things. Envelopes contain items, and one of those could be an event.

What are you trying to accomplish? we might be able to help you differently

[arend-melissant-tnt]

Hi,

I'm just trying to deserialize an complete received envelope, which fails if it contains an event with a timestamp formatted as a number. When te timestamp is formatted as a string everything works as expected. I do see in the code (or so it seems) that timestamps as numbers are not supported, but that should be supported as even the sentry-cli sends such events.

[bitsandfoxes]

Happy to help but I'm not quite following how to reproduce the issue you're running into:
You're sending an event via sentry-cli but how and why does that generated envelope end up in the .NET SDK? The stream is just the deserialized envelope you're picking up from somewhere?

[arend-melissant-tnt]

I'm forwarding messages to Sentry, that's how I get the messages. I'll create a small test for you to see what's happening