fix(sveltekit): Don't capture thrown Redirects as exceptions

packages/sveltekit/src/client/load.ts

@@ -3,11 +3,18 @@ import { captureException } from '@sentry/svelte';
 import { addExceptionMechanism, objectify } from '@sentry/utils';
 import type { LoadEvent } from '@sveltejs/kit';
 
+import { isRedirect } from '../common/utils';
+
 function sendErrorToSentry(e: unknown): unknown {
   // In case we have a primitive, wrap it in the equivalent wrapper class (string -> String, etc.) so that we can
   // store a seen flag on it.
   const objectifiedErr = objectify(e);
 
+  // We don't want to capture thrown `Redirect`s as these are not errors but expected behaviour
+  if (isRedirect(objectifiedErr)) {
+    return objectifiedErr;
+  }
+
   captureException(objectifiedErr, scope => {
     scope.addEventProcessor(event => {
       addExceptionMechanism(event, {

packages/sveltekit/src/common/utils.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+import type { Redirect } from '@sveltejs/kit';
+
+/**
+ * Determines if a thrown "error" is a Redirect object which SvelteKit users can throw to redirect to another route
+ * see: https://kit.svelte.dev/docs/modules#sveltejs-kit-redirect
+ * @param error the potential redirect error
+ */
+export function isRedirect(error: unknown): error is Redirect {
+  if (error == null || typeof error !== 'object') {
+    return false;
+  }
+  const hasValidLocation = 'location' in error && typeof error.location === 'string';
+  const hasValidStatus =
+    'status' in error && typeof error.status === 'number' && error.status >= 300 && error.status <= 308;
+  return hasValidLocation && hasValidStatus;
+}

packages/sveltekit/src/server/load.ts

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import type { TransactionContext } from '@sentry/types';
 import { addExceptionMechanism, objectify } from '@sentry/utils';
 import type { HttpError, LoadEvent, ServerLoadEvent } from '@sveltejs/kit';
 
+import { isRedirect } from '../common/utils';
 import { getTracePropagationData } from './utils';
 
 function isHttpError(err: unknown): err is HttpError {
@@ -19,7 +20,12 @@ function sendErrorToSentry(e: unknown): unknown {
   // The error() helper is commonly used to throw errors in load functions: https://kit.svelte.dev/docs/modules#sveltejs-kit-error
   // If we detect a thrown error that is an instance of HttpError, we don't want to capture 4xx errors as they
   // could be noisy.
-  if (isHttpError(objectifiedErr) && objectifiedErr.status < 500 && objectifiedErr.status >= 400) {
+  // Also the `redirect(...)` helper is used to redirect users from one page to another. We don't want to capture thrown
+  // `Redirect`s as they're not errors but expected behaviour
+  if (
+    isRedirect(objectifiedErr) ||
+    (isHttpError(objectifiedErr) && objectifiedErr.status < 500 && objectifiedErr.status >= 400)
+  ) {
     return objectifiedErr;
   }
 

packages/sveltekit/test/client/load.test.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 import { addTracingExtensions, Scope } from '@sentry/svelte';
 import type { Load } from '@sveltejs/kit';
+import { redirect } from '@sveltejs/kit';
 import { vi } from 'vitest';
 
 import { wrapLoadWithSentry } from '../../src/client/load';
@@ -99,6 +100,18 @@ describe('wrapLoadWithSentry', () => {
     expect(mockCaptureException).toHaveBeenCalledTimes(1);
   });
 
+  it("doesn't call captureException for thrown `Redirect`s", async () => {
+    async function load(_: Parameters<Load>[0]): Promise<ReturnType<Load>> {
+      throw redirect(300, 'other/route');
+    }
+
+    const wrappedLoad = wrapLoadWithSentry(load);
+    const res = wrappedLoad(MOCK_LOAD_ARGS);
+    await expect(res).rejects.toThrow();
+
+    expect(mockCaptureException).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
   it('calls trace function', async () => {
     async function load({ params }: Parameters<Load>[0]): Promise<ReturnType<Load>> {
       return {

packages/sveltekit/test/common/utils.test.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+import { isRedirect } from '../../src/common/utils';
+
+describe('isRedirect', () => {
+  it.each([
+    { location: '/users/id', status: 300 },
+    { location: '/users/id', status: 304 },
+    { location: '/users/id', status: 308 },
+    { location: '', status: 308 },
+  ])('returns `true` for valid Redirect objects', redirectObject => {
+    expect(isRedirect(redirectObject)).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it.each([
+    300,
+    'redirect',
+    { location: { route: { id: 'users/id' } }, status: 300 },
+    { status: 308 },
+    { location: '/users/id' },
+    { location: '/users/id', status: 201 },
+    { location: '/users/id', status: 400 },
+    { location: '/users/id', status: 500 },
+  ])('returns `false` for invalid Redirect objects', redirectObject => {
+    expect(isRedirect(redirectObject)).toBe(false);
+  });
+});

packages/sveltekit/test/server/load.test.ts

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import { addTracingExtensions } from '@sentry/core';
 import { Scope } from '@sentry/node';
 import type { Load, ServerLoad } from '@sveltejs/kit';
-import { error } from '@sveltejs/kit';
+import { error, redirect } from '@sveltejs/kit';
 import { vi } from 'vitest';
 
 import { wrapLoadWithSentry, wrapServerLoadWithSentry } from '../../src/server/load';
@@ -166,6 +166,18 @@ describe.each([
     });
   });
 
+  it("doesn't call captureException for thrown `Redirect`s", async () => {
+    async function load(_: Parameters<Load>[0]): Promise<ReturnType<Load>> {
+      throw redirect(300, 'other/route');
+    }
+
+    const wrappedLoad = wrapLoadWithSentry(load);
+    const res = wrappedLoad(MOCK_LOAD_ARGS);
+    await expect(res).rejects.toThrow();
+
+    expect(mockCaptureException).not.toHaveBeenCalled();
+  });
+
   it('adds an exception mechanism', async () => {
     const addEventProcessorSpy = vi.spyOn(mockScope, 'addEventProcessor').mockImplementationOnce(callback => {
       void callback({}, { event_id: 'fake-event-id' });