Add color rendering for log output

[LordMike]

When a job has run, the shell module in particular may output colorized text, using f.ex. using ANSI escape codes.

Colorizing this in the Web UI would be awesome :)

[jhuckaby]

Will add to TODO list. Thanks!

[mikeTWC1984]

+1

[mikeTWC1984]

I figured out how to achieve this by creating custom plugin (using html block). I think for the Event Log itself and error labels it's actually better to trim ansi sequences. Below is the sample I did with powershell. It needs ansi-to-html though (npm install ansi-to-html -g)

#!/usr/bin/pwsh
$params = $Input | Convertfrom-Json

$psfile = $params.params.psfile

$output = pwsh -f $psfile *>&1

if($?) {
    $exit =  @{complete=1} | convertto-json -compress;
}
else
{  $e = $error[1][0].Exception.Message | sed 's/\x1b\[[0-9;]*m//g'
   if($e) {$e = $e.Trim().TrimStart("|") }
   if($e.Length -gt 185) {$e = $e.Substring(1,185) + " ..." }
   $exit = @{complete=1; code = "RuntimeException" ; description = "$e" } | convertto-json -compress;
}

$title = "Console output"

$divStyle = '"background-color:black;color:#f2f2f2;background-image: radial-gradient(rgba(47, 79, 79, 0.75), black 120%);font: 1rem Inconsolata, monospace;"'

$content =  $output | ansi-to-html  | Out-String

$report = @{

    html = @{
       title = $title
       content = "<div style=$divStyle><pre>$content</pre></div>"
       #caption =  $caption
    }

}

$report | ConvertTo-Json -Compress

Write-Host $exit

[mikeTWC1984]

btw, if plugin is CRLF file it will crash cronicle. make sure you use LF.