[GNUnet-SVN] r37679 - gnunet/src/util

[gnunet]

Author: lynx
Date: 2016-08-09 12:00:29 +0200 (Tue, 09 Aug 2016)
New Revision: 37679

Modified:
   gnunet/src/util/common_logging.c
Log:
end-user friendly output messages, ok like this?

Modified: gnunet/src/util/common_logging.c
===================================================================
--- gnunet/src/util/common_logging.c    2016-08-09 10:00:16 UTC (rev 37678)
+++ gnunet/src/util/common_logging.c    2016-08-09 10:00:29 UTC (rev 37679)
@@ -801,12 +801,26 @@
   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;