[CB-8198] Unified console output logic for core platforms

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: cordova-android, cordova-ios, cordova-windows, cordova-wp8 (DEPRECATED)
• Assignee: Jesse MacFadyen
• Reporter: Vladimir Kotikov
• Created: 22/Dec/14 11:08
• Updated: 17/Feb/16 06:39
• Resolved: 17/Feb/16 06:39

Description

Currently all major platform scripts doesn't recognize trace levels and always logging all their output to console.
This could be unuseful, especially when a huge output from build tools is put to console (ant build/xcodebuild output is really huge and in most cases is unnecessary)

I propose to unify the way we write messages to console output:

1. Pass verbosity arguments (-d, --debug ) downstream to platform scripts.
2. Introduce special Log class which is shared across platform scripts

• automatically detects trace level according to command line arguments;
• support of output redirection (file, other) in the future?

3. Add support for the following verbosity levels: Error, Normal, Debug

• by default: Error and Normal messages are traced
• -silent: only Error messages are traced
• -verbose: everything is traced