In CsvHelper how to catch a conversion error and know what field and what row it happened in?

Currently, there is no way to ignore errors at the field/property level. Your current options are these:

Look at the exception data.

catch( Exception ex )
{
    // This contains useful information about the error.
    ex.Data["CsvHelper"];
}

Ignore reading exceptions. This is on a row level, though, not field. It will allow the whole file to still be read, and just ignore the rows that don't work. You can get a callback when an exception occurs.

csv.Configuration.IgnoreReadingExceptions = true;
csv.Configuration.ReadingExceptionCallback = ( ex, row ) =>
{
    // Do something with the exception and row data.
    // You can look at the exception data here too.
};

First of all, it seems that I need to catch CsvTypeConverterException.

 while (csv.Read())
    {
       try
       {    
          var record = csv.GetRecord<MyType>();    
       }
       catch (CsvTypeConverterException ex)
       {
         //ex.Data.Values has more info...
       }
    }

I now know how to investigate what went wrong, but how do I make sure that that field is skipped but the rest of the fields in that row are converted, so that not the entire row is thrown away?

Thanks

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Csvhelper