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Synchronize `PropagationContext` across layers

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
react-native, typescript

Research direction

Start by tracing PropagationContext and trace handling across the React Native, WebView, and native layers, using the three unchecked task-list items as the scope. Verify the RN-first and native-first cases, then confirm that RN-to-WebView propagation covers the examples described in the issue and that all remaining tasks are complete.

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Description

Feature React-Native Traces

Currently, WebViews, RN and native layers keep their own traceId. We could enhance the debugging experience by sharing trace across the hybrid applications layers.

Examples
  • RN opens WebView and an error (Browser SDK in WebView captured an error) happens on the web due to RN not supplying needed data (error was capture by RN). These are not sharing the same trace as the SDK operate independently.
  • Native SDK captures error, due to which data are missing in RN layer, and thus RN captures an error. Currently these errors are no covered by the same trace id.
### Tasks
- [ ] Pass trace from RN to native (if RN initialized first)
- [ ] React trace from native (if RN initialized second)
- [ ] Pass trace from RN to WebView
- [x] https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-java/pull/4137
- [x] https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-java/pull/4188
- [x] https://github.com/getsentry/sentry-cocoa/pull/5081
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