[REQ] Log colouration
Created by: ybelenko
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Right now it's hard to distinguish WARN
/DEBUG
/ERROR
console messages in Macos Terminal. Most of time I ignore these messages, because it looks like INFO
noise to me. When you generate the same build over and over again you just check error exit code or something red/yellow coloured in terminal output. If everything white or grey so it looks like nothing bad happened.
Describe the solution you'd like
I think it would be great to add an option of color output to all generators, like it works in maven
or other significant libraries.
This line of code works in MacOs Terminal, but we need more global solution.
LOGGER.warn("\u001B[33m" + "Yellow message" + "\u001B[0m");
Describe alternatives you've considered
@Fjolnir-Dvorak suggested log-colouration pipelines. See quotes below.
Additional context
Quotes from Slack conversation:
@jimschubert says:
Another consideration is that we support creating custom standalone generators. Adding colors affects those. See, for example, Apache ServiceComb Toolkit.
@wing328 says:
As a workaround, what about simply grepping for
WARN
orERROR
in the output ?
@Fjolnir-Dvorak says:
For maven there are log-colouration pipelines. I think that would be the best for openapi-generator, too. If you want coloured output pipe it through a colourization pipe / shell script. That is in my opinion the most versatile and best solution. That could also be added to the wrapper script and could be enabled via a
--colour
(or the american--color
🇺🇸 ) flag