Mention that sentry needs to be initialised before adding context for sentry native

[moritzsur]

Core or SDK?

Platform/SDK

Which part? Which one?

Sentry Native

Description

Not yet mentioned in the native docs

Suggested Solution

Change the code example from

#include <sentry.h>

sentry_value_t character = sentry_value_new_object();
sentry_value_set_by_key(character, "name", sentry_value_new_string("Mighty Fighter"));
sentry_value_set_by_key(character, "age", sentry_value_new_int32(19));
sentry_value_set_by_key(character, "attack_type", sentry_value_new_string("melee"));
sentry_set_context("character", character);

to

#include <sentry.h>

//...
//sentry_init(options);

sentry_value_t character = sentry_value_new_object();
sentry_value_set_by_key(character, "name", sentry_value_new_string("Mighty Fighter"));
sentry_value_set_by_key(character, "age", sentry_value_new_int32(19));
sentry_value_set_by_key(character, "attack_type", sentry_value_new_string("melee"));
sentry_set_context("character", character);

[getsantry]

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[JoshuaMoelans]

Hi, thanks for raising this issue. On our page about configuring the native SDK we mention that this configuration should happen as early as possible within your application. So, by the time you add context, sentry_init(options) should have been called already.

I can see how this is easy to overlook, but to avoid clutter in our other docs pages we don't show this initialization on every code snippet.