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Address potential unhandled exceptions in OTLP exporters
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Description
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Under scenarios when invalid signal-specific objects as passed to OTLP exporters, an unhandled exception can be thrown which directly violates the requirements outlined by the spec: https://opentelemetry.io/docs/specs/otel/error-handling/
OpenTelemetry implementations MUST NOT throw unhandled exceptions at run time.
Two ways in which this issue can be addressed are:
- Update
encode_metrics/encode_traces/encode_logsto NOT raise an exception, and instead log an error when unexpected data is encountered - Update OLTP metric exporters to handle the exception, logging the error and returning an export failure result
For additional context see #4996.
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