Oh, it is working in Elixir 1.4. See https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/issues/5754#issuecomment-278785958
On Thursday, July 13, 2017 at 10:57:15 AM UTC+2, Stephan Epping wrote: > > Thanks. I was looking at Elixir 1.4 though :( > > On Thursday, July 13, 2017 at 10:43:40 AM UTC+2, José Valim wrote: >> >> Please see the "Custom formatting" section in the Logger docs: >> https://hexdocs.pm/logger/master/Logger.html >> >> >> >> *José Valim* >> www.plataformatec.com.br >> Skype: jv.ptec >> Founder and Director of R&D >> >> On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 10:27 AM, Stephan Epping <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> *Use case* >>> >>> I need to convert the log format that is used for `:console` to print in >>> json format. (Because we use a docker syslog backend that forwards `stdout` >>> to logstash). >>> >>> *Preferred Solution* >>> >>> Ideally, I would give the `:console` backend a custom formatter via >>> config. The custom formatter than just converts the metadata and message to >>> a json string, which is printed by the default `console` backend. But right >>> now the backend relies on `Logger.Formatter` exclusively. >>> >>> *Alternative* >>> >>> Add a custom backend that in fact intercepts the log message and >>> converts it to json and then forwards it to the `:console` backend. >>> Drawback: one need to somehow start and wrap the `console` backend. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/fd21b80f-93aa-4e8b-8673-b9cc6a00d52d%40googlegroups.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/fd21b80f-93aa-4e8b-8673-b9cc6a00d52d%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "elixir-lang-core" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/elixir-lang-core/1417e77a-f823-4371-bfc8-7a130e88ce52%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
