Creating Flask App for Error Reporting to Sentry

This function creates a Flask application that contains a POST route to receive error data and send it to Sentry.

Technology Stack : Flask, Sentry SDK, FlaskIntegration

Code Type : The type of code

Code Difficulty : Intermediate

                
                    
import random
import sentry_sdk
from sentry_sdk.integrations.flask import FlaskIntegration
from flask import Flask, request, jsonify

def random_flask_route():
    # Create a simple Flask app
    app = Flask(__name__)

    # Set up Sentry integration with Flask
    app.config["SENTRY_DSN"] = "https://your-dsn@example.org/1"
    sentry_sdk.init integrations=[FlaskIntegration()])

    @app.route('/error', methods=['POST'])
    def report_error():
        # Get error data from the request
        error_data = request.get_json()
        
        # Send the error to Sentry
        sentry_sdk.capture_exception(error_data.get('exception'))
        
        return jsonify({"status": "error reported"}), 200

    return app

def xxx():
    # This function creates a random Flask route that reports errors to Sentry
    app = random_flask_route()
    return app

# JSON output for the function