Avoid error if http context extraction fails

Author: LotharSee

ddtrace/propagation/http.py

@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
+import logging
+
 from ..context import Context
 
+log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+
 # HTTP headers one should set for distributed tracing.
 # These are cross-language (eg: Python, Go and other implementations should honor these)
 HTTP_HEADER_TRACE_ID = 'x-datadog-trace-id'
@@ -55,14 +59,29 @@ def my_controller(url, headers):
         if not headers:
             return Context()
 
-        trace_id = int(headers.get(HTTP_HEADER_TRACE_ID, 0))
-        parent_span_id = int(headers.get(HTTP_HEADER_PARENT_ID, 0))
-        sampling_priority = headers.get(HTTP_HEADER_SAMPLING_PRIORITY)
-        if sampling_priority is not None:
-            sampling_priority = int(sampling_priority)
-
-        return Context(
-            trace_id=trace_id,
-            span_id=parent_span_id,
-            sampling_priority=sampling_priority,
-        )
+        try:
+            trace_id = int(headers.get(HTTP_HEADER_TRACE_ID, 0))
+            parent_span_id = int(headers.get(HTTP_HEADER_PARENT_ID, 0))
+            sampling_priority = headers.get(HTTP_HEADER_SAMPLING_PRIORITY)
+            if sampling_priority is not None:
+                sampling_priority = int(sampling_priority)
+
+            return Context(
+                trace_id=trace_id,
+                span_id=parent_span_id,
+                sampling_priority=sampling_priority,
+            )
+        # If headers are invalid and cannot be parsed, return a new context and log the issue.
+        except Exception as error:
+            try:
+                log.debug(
+                    "invalid x-datadog-* headers, trace-id: %s, parent-id: %s, priority: %s, error: %s",
+                    headers.get(HTTP_HEADER_TRACE_ID, 0),
+                    headers.get(HTTP_HEADER_PARENT_ID, 0),
+                    headers.get(HTTP_HEADER_SAMPLING_PRIORITY),
+                    error,
+                )
+            # We might fail on string formatting errors ; in that case only format the first error
+            except Exception:
+                log.debug(error)
+            return Context()