Strings are spread in logs causing column indexing to increase unnecessarily about logtail-js HOT 3 CLOSED

Hi @crobinson42, thanks for raising the issue! Can you share a bit more about your set-up, or a small reproducible script? Thanks a lot!

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@gyfis I don't know what to share with you except that I'm using the latest npm package with Node.js v16. As you can see in the first screenshot I am passing a string, event, as the second arg and it's being spread in the logtail sdk.

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@gyfis I don't know what to share with you except that I'm using the latest npm package with Node.js v16. As you can see in the first screenshot I am passing a string, event, as the second arg and it's being spread in the logtail sdk.

Thanks for that extra info, I understand the issue now (I missed that the event was a String).

We expect an object as the second argument (think: structured context for the log), and due to the nature of JavaScript, String does this.

I’m adding this to our pipeline; in the meantime, can you use an object instead of the string event? If you want to pass a string, you can always do { event: event }. Thanks!

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