Sentry-java: stacktrace.app.packages can not be configed in code

[Alireza-Farahani]

When initializing sentry in java, parameters like release and servername could be set on SentryClient, but I don't see an option for setting stacktrace.app.packages. Is this a intended behavior or a bug? What are the workarounds?

[bretthoerner]

Is there a reason you need to configure it on a SentryClient instance? It can be configured via the Client DSN, sentry.properties, Java System Properties or System Environment Variables: https://docs.sentry.io/clients/java/config/#configuration-methods

EDIT: Though I agree that there is a confusing distinction between options that can be configured on the client itself and those that can't.

[Alireza-Farahani]

I'm writing a springboot project and I wanted to use different sentry configuration per springboot active profile which I couldn't manage using sentry.properties. (I know this could be set via system properties or env vars but I liked to set sentry properties in application.yml file).
I couldn't find a way so decided to define a configuration in my code and load parameters from application.yml and initialize a SentryClient. Release and servername were available but stacktrace.app.package, sample.rate and some other properties were missing. I thought this was a bug but seems its intended.
And also, some guide or tutorial on configuring sentry with springboot would be great.

[bretthoerner]

We probably should add more configuration to the SentryClient itself.

As for configuration, I would just follow the configuration guide for the logging framework you use: https://docs.sentry.io/clients/java/modules/

[sanvisser]

Note that one workaround could be to add the stacktrace.app.packages=<whatever> as a query parameter to the DSN
<DSN>?stacktrace.app.packages=<PACKAGE>

This is what I am currently doing but I would rather have it as a separate option.

[Favorlock]

+1 for this issue. I am not able to use the sentry properties file or environment/system variables to configure sentry for my project, since I can't configure stacktrace.app.packages= programmatically I constantly see warnings about this. Quite annoying.

[maciejwalkowiak]

In the new, just released Java SDK v3 app packages can be configured in the code:

Sentry.init(options -> options.addInAppInclude(...));