Ability to customize how objects are repr()'d

[brianr]

pyrollbar uses reprlib to get representations of objects gathered as local variables. This means that to customize it, the only current option is to define/override __repr__. That isn't a good option in some cases, including:

• objects coming from external libraries
• objects where something else depends on the existing __repr__ implementation

Creating this issue to discuss the design for how to make this customizable.

[coryvirok]

Thanks for starting the convo, Brian.

I would probably expose a new configuration option that would allow the user to provide a function that would be used instead of __repr__() when serializing the local variable data.

e.g.

# Ordered list of serializers. The first regex pattern that 
# matches the object being serialized will be used. 
# If none of the user-supplied patterns match, the default 
# reprlib.repr() serializer will be used.
serializers = [
  ('class_name_regex_pattern', my_custom_serializer_fn)
  ('*', reprlib.repr)
]

[sibson]

+1 as is. It might be nice to support a __rollbar_repr__() convention of some kind for internal code.

[jfarrimo]

We need to make sure the solution to this addresses the problem that this pull request attempted to address. #91

[rivkahstandig3636]

Hi there, I’m closing out all issues opened before 2018 that haven’t had any activity on them since the start of this year. If this is still an issue for you, please comment here and we can reopen this. Thanks!

[dariatsenter]

Would be nice to have this option!