Do I always need to call clearAttachments() after addAttachment()?

[phstc]

I'm capturing screenshots to send to Sentry to help debug page errors (e.g., when a page times out because it can't find a selector). Here's a sample of my implementation:

try {
  // ...
} catch (error) {
  Sentry.getGlobalScope().addAttachment({
    filename: "test1.png",
    data: await page.screenshot(),
  });
  Sentry.captureException(error);
  Sentry.getGlobalScope().clearAttachments();
}

The issue I'm encountering is that the attachments are being associated with all subsequent events unless I call Sentry.getGlobalScope().clearAttachments() right after Sentry.captureException(error).

Question: Is there a better way to handle this, or is manually clearing the attachments after every capture the recommended approach?

[lforst]

If you use the global scope you need to clean it up, yes.

If you use a more narrow scope, for example with Sentry.withScope(scope => { ... }) you don't need to explicitly clean it up.