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Make sure async wrapping for Javascript error logging only happens when the call is truly async
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Description

There are some jQuery operations that can be either sync or async, e.g. $.ajax. If we apply error logging in the sync case, that means we will report errors multiple times and might even report errors that the application code handles safely. Made-up example:

try {
    $.ajax( '/endpoint.php', { async: false } ).done( function ( data ) {
        if ( !data ) {
            throw new Error( 'API call failed' );
        }
    } );
} catch (e) {
    alert( 'API call failed, please try again later' );
}

This error should not be reported since the application code already deals with it.

Other potentially problematic methods beyond $.ajax are $.event.add for synthetic events, and $.ready when the page already finished loading.

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Tgr changed the task status from Open to Stalled.Mar 25 2015, 11:39 PM

Abandoned for now, see T92247#1147500.

Tgr triaged this task as Medium priority.Apr 3 2015, 7:02 AM

At the time of creating this task it was assumed that the server side implementation of error logging would be based on Sentry. We have eventually decided on a different implementation, so de-tagging.

@Tgr: In which codebase would this have to get implemented? Asking as this task lacks a codebase project tag.

Boldly declining after 5.5 years of being stalled and looking at the dependency tree.
Feel free to reopen and assign an active project tag if this is still wanted. Thanks!