[MNG-3507] ANSI color logging for improved output visibility

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.5.0-alpha-1, 3.5.0
• Component/s: Logging
• Assignee: Herve Boutemy
• Reporter: Rahul Akolkar
• Created: 07/Apr/08 17:37
• Updated: 28/Mar/20 14:59
• Resolved: 24/Jan/17 17:41

Description

Is it possible for Maven to use ANSI color logging? IMO it would make Maven logs much easier to read and increase the visibility of items that the user want to see at any given point in time.

I think Andrew Williams did some work under Plexus sandbox to enable color logging. There also a color logger available in Ant.
http://ant.apache.org/manual/listeners.html#AnsiColorLogger

Issue Links

• incorporates: MNG-6043 Colorization is disabled too late in batch mode
• incorporates: MNG-6041 Option -l does not disable colorized output
• incorporates: MNG-6046 upgrade JAnsi from 1.12 to 1.13
• incorporates: MNG-6115 Add Jansi native library search path to our start scripts to avoid extraction to temp file on each run
• is related to: MNG-6282 Console output has no colors in shell (both Git Bash and Cygwin) [regression in Jansi 1.16 / Maven 3.5.1]
• is related to: MINVOKER-205 add color messages
• is related to: MNG-6037 add gossip slf4j provider support
• is related to: MNG-6220 Add CLI options to control color output
• is related to: MSHARED-562 add an API to create messages with consistent and configurable colors
• is related to: MSITE-779 add color to report generation messages
• is related to: MSHARED-547 Support colorized output checks (ignore ANSI escape codes)
• is related to: SUREFIRE-1254 add color messages
• relates to: SUREFIRE-420 ANSI color support
• requires: MNG-5961 Maven possibly not aware of log4j2
• requires: MNG-6093 create a slf4j-simple provider extension that supports level color rendering
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #81
• mentioned in: Page Loading...

Sub-Tasks

• Document Jansi's native support limitation: Closed