A logging plugin

[Dave Thomas]

I took Cliffano Subagio's "human_logging" gist and made the output a lot more compact—I think it's easier to read:

https://gist.github.com/pragdave/4b984557676d2d6c92a6

# Interpret the Ansible log for humans. In particular, we

# look for command executions and format their content

#

#     - name: list files

#       shell: "ls -lrt *e*"

#

# Might produce

#

#       TASK: [1] ***********************************************************

#       changed: [localhost]

#       2015-07-25 09:41:03: ls -lrt *e*

#           -rw-r--r--  1 dave  staff  1696 Jul 11 11:54 ansible.pem

#           -rw-r--r--  1 dave  staff   106 Jul 22 10:10 fix-sudoers.sh

#           -rw-r--r--  1 dave  staff    20 Jul 22 20:06 fred.yml

#           -rw-r--r--  1 dave  staff   345 Jul 23 14:48 ansible.cfg

#           -rw-r--r--  1 dave  staff    68 Jul 25 09:35 site.yml

#

#           filter_plugins:

#           total 16

#           -rw-r--r--  1 dave  staff  247 Jul 24 18:06 to_instance_tags.py

#           -rw-r--r--  1 dave  staff  859 Jul 24 20:55 to_instance_tags.pyc

#           (took .008240s)

#

# The start time appears as the prompt for the command, and the result

# is shown indented. The output ends with the elapsed time.

[Baraa Basata]

Looks nice. I'll try this out for, e.g., Rails migrations output. Thanks for sharing this, Dave.

-Baraa

[Chris McDonald]

Hi

Thanks very much for this. Its just what I'm looking for.

I wonder however, might it contain a small bug? stdout and stderr are both being output in yellow always rather than stderr being output in bright red which is preferable. I think that the following fixes this:

def display_output(output, color='yellow'):

    if output:

        output = "\n    ".join(output.split("\n"))

        print(stringc("    " + output, color))

Best regards

chris

[Dave Thomas]

Chris:

You're right. Fixed.

Thanks

Dave