Formatters can not fail when formatting an event

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - Clear in-memory subscriptions when a SIGHUP signal is received, resulting in all file descriptors used by subscriptions being closed (#37)
 - `heartbeats_queue_size` now defaults to 2048 instead of 32 (#37)
 - **Breaking change**: Keytab file path must be specified only once for all collectors (using Kerberos authentication)
+- A malformed event will no longer stop the event stream (for a computer/subscription) because formatters are not allowed to fail. In problematic cases, some work is done to try to recover the raw data of the event, and an `OpenWEC.Error` field is added (in the JSON formatter) to help catch the problem (#47)
 
 ## [0.1.0] - 2023-05-30
 

doc/formats.md

@@ -44,6 +44,12 @@ openwec_data := {
         "Version": string,
         "Uuid": string,
         "Uri": string
+    },
+    /* Only in case of error during event parsing or serializing */
+    "Error": {
+        "OriginalContent": string,
+        "Type": string,
+        "Message": string
     }
 }