automate-symbolication: Option to fail silently?

I’m trying to use automate-symbolication, or automatically uploading source maps for a react native project. However, looks like failing to upload to bugsnag (due to timeouts or spotty internet) is causing the entire build step to fail.

I would like to know, or request, if it would be possible to only upload source maps if a “production” build is being generated (that is, for iOS only do this when archiving, and for Android only when running ./gradlew bundleProdRelease). Otherwise, this is very inconvenient since installing “production” builds into the device directly from XCode or ADB will also trigger a source map upload.

[cristianoccazinsp]

It says it is a “retired document”, but I guess the info is still valid. Anyways, with your first response I believe I got it to work as expected now. Thanks!

[xljones]

Hey @cristianoccazinsp,

I’m unsure what the DEPLOYMENT_LOCATION and ACTION variables are.

These are environment variables which are generated by Xcode when you run a build. They can be accessed by the build phase scripts at build-time which will allow you to know what kind of build is happening. If ACTION is equal to build, it’s a debug or release build, if it’s set to install it’s building for an archive.

Unfortunately, there’s no particularly good reference for these environment variables from Apple as far as I know – other than this resource, which gives some examples for each of the exported environment variables.

You can output all of your environment variables in a build by adding a simple build phase script as follows to your Xcode build phases if you want to test out what the env variables look like for different build types:

• Shell: /bin/sh​
• Script: export​
• Ensure “Show environment variables in build log” is selected.

what’s the difference between the enabled and uploadReactNativeMappings flags?

bugsnag.uploadReactNativeMappings = false switches the JS sourcemap upload off. bugsnag.enabled = false switches the whole plugin off, including source map uploading.

do I also need to set enabled if I’m using variant filters?

I’d recommend that you do set enabled to false for variants that you don’t want Bugsnag to run on, just so that you don’t have any assets uploading needlessly.