Error interception / ProxyElement feature?

Question

Hello!
Is there any clean way to intercept MediaError and prevent it from going to MediaPlayer?
For example I have a video element that should reconnect automatically if connection is lost (similar to stream reconnect but another use case). In that case I handle reconnect in proxy element without "bubbling" event up the composition chain to MediaPlayer.
The most obvious way for me is using a ProxyElement with custom traits but there is a minor inconvenience there - the event handler that handles proxied element error is marked as private. So I have to subscribe an event with higher priority and stop event propagation that seems a little "dirty".
Is there any cleaner way to block an error from elements "above"?
Or may be you (OSMF team) could make some template method in future release? Something like:
private function onMediaError(event:MediaErrorEvent):void
     if (false == isErrorHandled(event)) {
          dispatchEvent(event.clone());
* Processes a proxied element error.
* @return True if error was processed and no "bubbling" needed.
protected function isErrorHandled(event:MediaErrorEvent):Boolean {
     return false;
What do you think?
Best regards!

Answer 1

Thank you for your feature suggestion!  It's definitely something we would like to consider for the future.  It would be really great if you could enter your request here: https://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/FM and mark it as an enhancement request, so that we can properly track it.
Thanks!
Cathi (OSMF Product Manager)