On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 10:50 PM, Gary Gregory <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> See color messages in Maven 3.4.0-SNAPSHOT made me think of the following.
>
> Right now, with Jansi on the CP, I can say:
>
> import static org.fusesource.jansi.Ansi.*;
> import static org.fusesource.jansi.Ansi.Color.*;
> ...
> logger.info(ansi().fg(RED).a("Hello").fg(CYAN).a(" World").reset());
>
> and the right thing happens on the console.
>
> If I also have a file appender, I get the escape codes in the file, which
> I do not think most people would want.
>
> The question is, how can we make it simple for users to have their cake
> and eat it too?
>
> With a special Message implementation?
>
> Thoughts?
>
One way would be to have the non-a() methods (plus reset()) become no-ops
when not using a console appender. But how? We could have a subclass of
JAnsi's Ansi class that gets used. Anyway, I'm just rambling.
Gary
> Thank you,
> Gary
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