statsd.event should raise something more specific than Exception

[tylertrussell]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. The statsd.event function will raise Exception in the event the payload is invalid (i.e. too big). This prevents users of the library from catching a specific exception, and could lead to other types of errors (e.g. TypeError) being "swallowed" when they should be allowed to propagate.

Describe the solution you'd like Instead of Exception, the library should raise a ValueError (or some other more-specific Exception subclass).

Describe alternatives you've considered Users of the library could catch an Exception and then try to compare the error message, which is not great.

Updating to remove stale tag; this is still reproducible.

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[tylertrussell]

I confirm that I can still reproduce this issue in the latest version of the project.

There is an open PR #730 that addresses this issue, it would be excellent to have that reviewed by the relevant parties at some point soon.

[sgnn7]

@tylertrussell The linked PR has been merged so it should be out with the next release of this library (probably 0.45.x). I'll mark this issue as closed but feel free to reopen if needed.