Why are exceptions in summary method ignored?

[mback2k]

I see that exceptions thrown during summary creation are currently ignored:

cortexutils/cortexutils/analyzer.py

Lines 96 to 99 in 3978d77

	try:
	summary = self.summary(full_report)
	except Exception:
	pass

Why is that the case? This is quite annoying during analyzer development and I cannot think of a valid reason for this.
Is this maybe for some backwards compatibility to analyzers without a summary function? If so, can't this be made more specific?

[nadouani]

Hello @mback2k the initial reason was to not break the analysis because of a unhandled issue in the summary.

With that being said, we are open for any better idea.

How would you handle this?

[mback2k]

Hello @mback2k the initial reason was to not break the analysis because of a unhandled issue in the summary.

I understand that, but why is it assumed that there are unhandled issues in the summary generation?

With that being said, we are open for any better idea.

How would you handle this?

I would make it possible for Cortex Analyzers to return a result and an error message in order to enable the result still being processed, but also show the error (maybe as a warning about the result potentially being incomplete).