From: Carlo von lynX <lynX@time.to.get.psyced.org>
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2016 10:00:29 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: end-user friendly output messages, ok like this?
X-Git-Tag: initial-import-from-subversion-38251~408
X-Git-Url: https://git.librecmc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d9fa2fd38959b65f50baa3000ccfdcc0312f0ff7;p=oweals%2Fgnunet.git

end-user friendly output messages, ok like this?
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diff --git a/src/util/common_logging.c b/src/util/common_logging.c
index ecbe69443..a391d0b9e 100644
--- a/src/util/common_logging.c
+++ b/src/util/common_logging.c
@@ -801,12 +801,26 @@ output_message (enum GNUNET_ErrorType kind,
   if ( (NULL != GNUNET_stderr) &&
        (NULL == loggers) )
   {
-    FPRINTF (GNUNET_stderr,
+    if (kind == GNUNET_ERROR_TYPE_MESSAGE) {
+	/* The idea here is to produce "normal" output messages
+	 * for end users while still having the power of the
+	 * logging engine for developer needs. So ideally this
+	 * is what it should look like when CLI tools are used
+	 * interactively, yet the same message shouldn't look 
+	 * this way if the output is going to logfiles or robots
+	 * instead. Is this the right place to do this?	--lynX
+	 */
+	FPRINTF (GNUNET_stderr,
+             "* %s",
+             msg);
+    } else {
+	FPRINTF (GNUNET_stderr,
              "%s %s %s %s",
              datestr,
              comp,
              GNUNET_error_type_to_string (kind),
              msg);
+    }
     fflush (GNUNET_stderr);
   }
   pos = loggers;