[systemd-devel] [PATCH] journalctl: allow customizable output formats

[Ivan Shapovalov]

On Monday 22 September 2014 at 12:43:28, Daurnimator wrote:	
> On 22 September 2014 11:33, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > The current '--output FORMAT' argument defines a number of
> > common output formats, but there are some useful cases it
> > does cover. In particular when reading application logs it
> > is often desirable to display the code file name, line number
> > and function name. Rather than defining yet more fixed output
> > formats, this patch introduces user defined output formats.
> >
> > The format string is an arbitrary string which contains a
> > mixture of literal text and variable subsistitions. Each
> > variable name corresponds to a journal field name. A variable
> > name can be optionally followed by a data type, and in the
> > case of string types, a length limit.
> >
> 
> As an opposing point of view, I've been accomplishing this by piping output
> through a script that parses and displays JSON.
> I rather this style of composability than passing format strings to
> journalctl itself.

I think that using dedicated ad-hoc JSON parser for customizing output
is an overkill. For that matter, Git has support for custom output format
in its "log" command, and I've found it useful many times.

-- 
Ivan Shapovalov / intelfx /
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