Log Errors when Event.set() fails?
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Coming from https://github.com/elastic/logstash/pull/7730#issuecomment-319444677 and related discussion.
Currently, we're swallowing the following situation quietly.
Set a list of some values, say `["one", "two", "three"]` at `"[foo][bar]"`.
Calling `event.set("[foo][bar][3]", "four")` works fine and sets the value as expected.
Calling `event.set("[foo][bar][strrrring]", "four")` doesn't do anything and the call is quietly ignored, hiding potential issues.
I think we should log a clear `ERROR` level line stating that setting a value for `"[foo][bar][strrrring]"` did not work because `"[foo][bar]"` is a list to give users visibility on the problem.
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