Added log coloring

settingsd/config.py

@@ -25,7 +25,8 @@ ConfigDictObject = {
 		"service_name" : (const.DEFAULT_SERVICE_NAME, str),
 		"service_path" : (const.DEFAULT_SERVICE_PATH, str),
 		"bus_type" : (const.DEFAULT_BUS_TYPE, ( lambda arg : validators.validRange(arg, const.ALL_BUS_TYPES_LIST) )),
-		"log_level" : (const.DEFAULT_LOG_LEVEL, ( lambda arg : validators.validRange(int(arg), const.ALL_LOG_LEVELS_LIST) ))
+		"log_level" : (const.DEFAULT_LOG_LEVEL, ( lambda arg : validators.validRange(int(arg), const.ALL_LOG_LEVELS_LIST) )),
+		"log_use_colors" :(const.DEFAULT_LOG_USE_COLORS_FLAG, validators.validBool)
 	},
 	RUNTIME_SECTION : {
 		"bus_name" : (None, None),

settingsd/const.py

@@ -33,4 +33,5 @@ DEFAULT_SERVICE_NAME = "org.etersoft.%s" % (MY_NAME)
 DEFAULT_SERVICE_PATH = "/org/etersoft/%s" % (MY_NAME)
 DEFAULT_BUS_TYPE = BUS_TYPE_SYSTEM
 DEFAULT_LOG_LEVEL = LOG_LEVEL_INFO
+DEFAULT_LOG_USE_COLORS_FLAG = True
 

settingsd/logger.py

@@ -38,7 +38,15 @@ def log(message_type, message) :
 		raise UnknownMessageType("Message type \"%d\" not in list %s" % (message_type, ALL_MESSAGES_LIST))
 
 	if message_type[2] <= config.value(config.APPLICATION_SECTION, "log_level") :
-		message_type_texts_list = ("Error", "Warning", "Notice", "Info", "Details", "Debug")
+		use_colors_flag = sys.stderr.isatty() and config.value(config.APPLICATION_SECTION, "log_use_colors")
+		message_type_texts_list = (
+			( "\033[31mError\033[0m" if use_colors_flag else "Error" ),
+			( "\033[33mWarning\033[0m" if use_colors_flag else "Warning" ),
+			( "\033[32mNotice\033[0m" if use_colors_flag else "Notice" ),
+			( "\033[32mInfo\033[0m" if use_colors_flag else "Info" ),
+			( "\033[36mDetails\033[0m" if use_colors_flag else "Details" ),
+			"Debug"
+		)
 		message = "[ %s ]: %s" % (message_type_texts_list[message_type[0]], message)
 
 		print >> sys.stderr, const.MY_NAME, message