User Consent - Allow manual sending of events

[ghost]

Problem Statement

Currently sending of events seems to be fully automatic.
I want to ask my users for consent before sending the crash report.

Solution Brainstorm

I'm interested in the SDKs for Java, iOS & macOS.

Crashlytics has the following methods:

• setCrashlyticsCollectionEnabled(boolean enabled) to enable automatic sending of events
• checkForUnsentReports() to check if I should show a promt asking the user
• sendUnsentReports() to send the report (after the user aggreed to)
• deleteUnsentReports() to delete them if the user does not want to send the report

[getsentry-release]

Routing to @getsentry/team-webplatform for triage. ⏲️

[getsentry-release]

Routing to @getsentry/team-mobile for triage. ⏲️

[marandaneto]

@bruno-garcia ^ user consent request.

[marandaneto]

@AshStefanOltmann a built-in feature for that makes sense, but we're not there yet, thanks for reporting.

there are workarounds tho, you can decide to initialize or not the SDK depending on the user consent, or enable and disable the SDK if necessary afterwards.

you can also filter out events if the user has not given user consent https://docs.sentry.io/platforms/android/configuration/filtering/

what we don't have is, the SDK is enabled but not sending events, and later you decide to send all the events.
a similar request is here getsentry/sentry-java#1752

the same workarounds are possible for iOS

[bruno-garcia]

I'll move this to the sentry-cocoa SDK since the sentry-java already has one and this is an SDK specific request.

[philipphofmann]

While we don't have this feature yet, you could somehow build a similar behavior on your own. You can use setup the SDK with SentryOpitons.enabled = false, so nothing gets sent to Sentry. You could use SentryOptions.onCrashedLastRun to check if the app crashed on a previous run and then change the options flag to SentryOpitons.enabled = false.

[vaind]

FYI this is a P1 in getsentry/team-mobile#24 while being a P3 here