Added _safe_decode.

marine/marine.py

@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ def _load_marine_packet(cls, field):
     def _load_child_fields(cls, children):
         child_fields = {}
         for child in children.data[: children.len]:
-            name = child.name.decode("utf-8")
+            name = cls._safe_decode(child.name)
             value = cls._load_marine_packet(child)
             child_fields[name] = value
         return child_fields
@@ -359,14 +359,21 @@ def _load_field_value(cls, value):
         elif value_type == MarinePacketFieldValueType.BOOL:
             return bool(value.bool_value)
         elif value_type == MarinePacketFieldValueType.STR:
-            return value.str_value.decode("utf-8")
+            return cls._safe_decode(value.str_value)
         elif value_type == MarinePacketFieldValueType.BYTES:
             return value.str_value[:value_len]
         elif value_type == MarinePacketFieldValueType.LIST:
             return [cls._load_field_value(v) for v in value.list_value[:value_len]]
         else:
             raise ValueError(f"Unknown value type {value_type}")
 
+    @staticmethod
+    def _safe_decode(raw_value: bytes) -> str:
+        try:
+            return raw_value.decode("utf-8")
+        except UnicodeDecodeError:
+            return raw_value.hex()
+
     def _add_or_get_filter(
         self,
         bpf: Optional[bytes] = None,

setup.py

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 setup(
     name="marine",
-    version="3.1.0",
+    version="3.1.1",
     description="Python client for Marine",
     url="https://github.com/tomlegkov/marine-python",
     author="Tom Legkov",