[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi All, > > >I have this sinking feeling that this is going to in fact be very difficult >as each task/target formats their log messages individually so that targets >have their name prefixed with a : and targets are wrapped like this [task] >at the point of log message creation (well the brackets are added in the >LogPrefix property). > > I think your sinking feeling is warranted and the logging system will need some reworking to handle customisable output formats.
>If I am not missing something easier, upon reviewing of the code, I don't >see any easy way to get XML output but here are the ways I see -- all of >which would mean quite a bit of code changing: > >1) Change the logging so that it produces unformatted text, and then a >formatter that produces the console style (or xml) output ( a lot of work) >2) Implement a logging system like Ant's that has log events, and allow the >logger to handle those events as makes sense (even more work) >3) pattern match the target: name based on the : and the task name based on >the [ ] wrapper and just emit xml from an XmlLogger -- Hard to determine >where elements end, and even harder to know whether : and [ ] are not false >positives in the output (plus this says nothing about informational >messages) and really kludgey to boot. > > I think that 1 or 2 are the better options with 2 being the cleanest but the most work. I haven't looked at Ants logging system to be sure though. Ian ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Nant-developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nant-developers
