1792913 - Remove unique identifiers from Sentry reports

Status: NEW

(Firefox for Android :: Crash Reporting, task, P3)

Description

[Christian Sadilek [:csadilek]]

From github: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/android-components/issues/6577.

Sentry is not very good at understanding that the following reports are really all the same:

IllegalStateException
androidx.fragment.app.Fragment in setOnStartEnterTransitionListener
Trying to set a replacement startPostponedEnterTransition on HomeFragment{2b916fc} (66d6e8b1-e1dd-4a10-b54d-f03f7003a312) id=0x7f090170}

IllegalStateException
androidx.fragment.app.Fragment in setOnStartEnterTransitionListener
Trying to set a replacement startPostponedEnterTransition on HomeFragment{55af279} (b5a85f9a-a118-45cf-9314-620f1801bbe9) id=0x7f090170}

It groups exceptions with a similar type and message pretty well, but when UUIDs or pointer addresses are in the message, that process fails and results in a very large number of reports that we need to group manually.

This ticket is to run an experiment where we try to write a preSubmit Sentry hook that blanks out UUIDs and Pointer addresses. I think a simply regular expression can probably catch those pretty easily.

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Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

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:cpeterson, could you have a look please?

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