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Improve automatic tagging of Composables

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
kotlin
Domain
mobile

Research direction

Start by reading the compiler plugin implementation and the linked VKCOM TestTagApplier prior art to understand how composable names become SentryTag values. Done means automatic tags uniquely distinguish composables using the proposed source details and ViewHierarchies and Transactions represent the traced components more accurately.

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Currently our automatic tagging through the compiler plugin is suboptimal, because we're using a Composable name for SentryTag which can be default composable names like Image/Text/Slider etc. and which don't uniquely identify the composable.

We could use filename + function name + lineno to uniquely identify composables and make the ViewHierarchies and Transactions better represent what components are being traced.

Prior art: https://github.com/VKCOM/vkompose/blob/master/compiler-plugin/compose-test-tag/applier/plugin/src/main/kotlin/com/vk/compiler/plugin/compose/test/tag/applier/TestTagApplier.kt

Dominant language
Kotlin
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184
Forks
41
Avg merge
1d 23h
Merged PRs (30d)
19

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