Wrong exception name (`Object.captureException`) when a 500 with Remix json response

[AbhiPrasad]

Discussed in #5958

^{Originally posted by jorisre October 14, 2022}
When I throw a 500 json response with Remix, the exception name is incorrect.

throw json(
  { data: {} },
  {
    status: 500,
    statusText: "My error"
  }
);

Result in:

How I can set myself the exception name for Sentry ?

[AbhiPrasad]

@jorisre question here, why are you throwing the json response? Shouldn't you just return an 500 error instead or throw an actual error? That might lead to better error messages showing up.

[jorisre]

You're right. But I prefer json response because I can pass down more data to the browser and display a better page (UX) to users.

What do you have in mind to improve this case? (maybe I can try to work on it)

[AbhiPrasad]

Well we can try to then construct a better error here (what we pass into captureException):

sentry-javascript/packages/remix/src/utils/instrumentServer.ts

Line 80 in 9c66c39

captureException(isResponse(err) ? extractData(err) : err, scope => {