Django How to add user info to Sentry's report when an error happened?

Question

I use the django-restful framework and I want to add user info to Sentry's report when an error happened in the ModelViewSet.

I find this doc of Sentry: https://docs.sentry.io/enriching-error-data/context/?_ga=1.219964441.1220115692.1472094716%3F_ga&platform=python#capturing-the-user

It gives some code as follows:

from sentry_sdk import configure_scope

with configure_scope() as scope:
    scope.user = {"email": "[email protected]"}

But I can not figure out how to properly use it. I think there exists a better way than the following:

@list_route()
def fun_xxx(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
  user = request.user
  with configure_scope() as scope:
     scope.user = {"id": user.id,......}

  ...some code may cause an error...

  return Response({...})

Can anyone give me some suggestions? :)

Answer 1

As mentioned in the comments, the Django integration will attach this particular data automatically.

As for the question on how to generally add data in a Django app, you are basically looking for something to run before each view. A Django middleware suits this:

def sentry_middleware(get_response):

    def middleware(request):
        with configure_scope() as scope:
            ...

        response = get_response(request)
        return response

    return middleware

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.2/topics/http/middleware/