public static SerializedEvent ApplyConsumerFilter(SerializedEvent e, string consumer, ITextSerializer serializer, Func<string, ITextSerializer, string, bool> filter)
        {
            if (filter(consumer, serializer, e.Payload))
                return e;

            var originalEvent = serializer.Deserialize<IEvent>(e.Payload);
            var cloaked = new CloakedEvent(originalEvent.EventCollectionVersion, originalEvent.StreamType);
            return new SerializedEvent(e.EventCollectionVersion, serializer.Serialize(cloaked));
        }
        /// <remarks>
        /// Timeout implementation inspired by: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5018921/implement-c-sharp-timeout
        /// </remarks>
        public PollResponse PollEvents(long consumerVersion, string consumerName)
        {
            var ecv = this.store.CurrentEventCollectionVersion;

            var newEvents = new SerializedEvent[0];

            // last received version could be somehow less than 0. I found once that was -1,
            // and was always pushing "0 events", as the signal r tracing showed (27/10/2015)
            if (consumerVersion < 0)
                consumerVersion = 0;

            // the consumer says that is more updated than the source. That is an error. Maybe the publisher did not started yet!
            if (ecv < consumerVersion)
                return PollResponse.CreateSerializedResponse(true, false, this.streamType, newEvents, consumerVersion, ecv);

            bool newEventsWereFound = false;
            var errorDetected = false;
            var stopwatch = Stopwatch.StartNew();
            while (!this.stopping && stopwatch.Elapsed < this.longPollingTimeout)
            {
                if (ecv == consumerVersion)
                {
                    // consumer is up to date, and now is waiting until something happens!
                    Thread.Sleep(1);
                    ecv = this.store.CurrentEventCollectionVersion; // I Forgot to update!
                }
                // weird error, but is crash proof. Once i had an error where in an infinite loop there was an error saying: Pushing 0 events to....
                // A Charly le paso. Sucede que limpio la base de datos y justo queria entregar un evento y no devolvia nada.
                else if (ecv > consumerVersion)
                {
                    newEvents = this.store.FindEventsForConsumer(consumerVersion, ecv, this.eventsToPushMaxCount, consumerName);

                    if (newEvents.Length > 0)
                    {
                        newEventsWereFound = true;
                        this.log.Trace($"{this.streamType} publisher is pushing {newEvents.Length} event/s to {consumerName}");
                        break;
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        // Lo que le paso a charly.
                        newEventsWereFound = false;
                        errorDetected = true;
                        var errorMessage = $"There is an error in the event store or a racy condition. The consumer [{consumerName}] version is {consumerVersion} and the local event collection version should be {ecv} but it is not.";
                        this.log.Error(errorMessage);
                        this.bus.Publish(new FatalErrorOcurred(new FatalErrorException(errorMessage)));
                        break;
                    }
                }
                else
                    // bizzare, but helpful to avoid infinite loops
                    break;
            }

            return PollResponse.CreateSerializedResponse(errorDetected, newEventsWereFound, this.streamType, newEvents, consumerVersion, ecv);
        }