Allow example script to continue if errors are received

Add an option to ignore error events and continue receiving.

Connection errors are not ignored and will still result in the
script exiting.

Change-Id: I807fa50700eb6970b7fbabe48c499fe513717c4d

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/example.py b/example.py
index 4a836d1..cde021c 100755
--- a/example.py
+++ b/example.py
@@ -52,6 +52,9 @@ def _main():
     parser.add_option('-v', '--verbose', dest='verbose',
                       action='store_true',
                       help='enable verbose (debug) logging')
+    parser.add_option('-i', '--ignore-stream-errors', dest='ignore',
+                      action='store_true',
+                      help='do not exit when an error event is received')
 
     (options, _args) = parser.parse_args()
     if options.timeout and not options.blocking:
@@ -77,7 +80,7 @@ def _main():
                                      timeout=options.timeout)
             if event:
                 logging.info("Event: %s", event)
-                if isinstance(event, ErrorEvent):
+                if isinstance(event, ErrorEvent) and not options.ignore:
                     logging.error(event.error)
                     errors.set()
                     break