instance-meta.php currupted and crashed our site

Hello,

we faced a problem with the plugin cache files.

CRITICAL syntax error, unexpected ‘”‘ in /var/www/html/wp-content/plugins/bread-finance/framework/data/instance-meta.php on line 5

I sadly wasn’t able to see what exactly the file contained, but I would guess a crashed process while writing.

The problem is, if the file is corrupted, it will crash the whole site.
To prevent this from happening, we added a try-catch block in bread-finance/framework/classes/Plugin.php

Our functions looks now like this:

public function getData( $key, $subdir=NULL )
{
	if ( file_exists( $this->getPath() . '/data/' . $key . '.php' ) )
	{
		try {
			$data = include $this->getPath().'/data/'.$key.'.php';
		} catch(\Throwable $ex) {
			unlink($this->getPath() . '/data/' . $key . '.php');
			return NULL;
		}
		if ( $data )
		{
			return json_decode( $data, TRUE );
		}
	}
	
	return NULL;
}

Can you please validate our fix is correct or is there another way to prevent this issue?

Best regards
Andi