setUser from main does not accessible from renderer

[shay8el]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have checked for existing issues https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-javascript/issues
• I have reviewed the documentation https://docs.sentry.io/
• I am using the latest SDK release https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-javascript/releases

How do you use Sentry?

Sentry Saas (sentry.io)

Electron SDK Version

7.2.0

Electron Version

35.0.3

What platform are you using?

MacOS

Link to Sentry event

No response

Steps to Reproduce

1. trigger Sentry.setUser(user) from @sentry/electron/main
2. access user data in beforeSendLogs of @sentry/electron/main that way:

const scope = Sentry.getGlobalScope()
const user = scope.getUser()

events sent with user data ✅
3. try to do the same on @sentry/electron/renderer
4. scope.getUser() is empty 🛑
5. setting the user from renderer - Sentry.setUser(user) from @sentry/electron/renderer
6. scope.getUser() is still empty 🛑

Expected Result

• ideally, logs will be sent with user identifier
• because it's not exists, had to use beforeSendLog, and manually enrich the log attributes with user
• I would like to set user once (in fact, for captureError seems like the error and breadcrumbs are user identified)
• If I already need to set it twice, I could set it with Sentry.setUser(user) without had to fetch scope

Actual Result

eventually wasn't ideal but it worked:

• setting the user (2nd time) from renderer that way:

const globalScope = getGlobalScope()
globalScope.setUser(user)

• accessing it the same way as before:

const scope = Sentry.getGlobalScope()
const user = scope.getUser()

[linear]

ELECTR-37

[timfish]

Hey @shay8el!

Sorry, I understand that the user is not set in logs where you expect but I don't fully understand under exactly which circumstances!

Can you give a full code example that you think should be working?