how to disable the stdout log color?

[YANGJINJUE]

how to disable the request url log color

Checklist

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Expected behaviour

if request success stdout print 200

Actual behaviour

if request success stdout will print 32m200

Steps to reproduce

e.Use(middleware.Logger())

Working code to debug

import (
  "net/http"
  "github.com/labstack/echo/v4"
  "github.com/labstack/echo/v4/middleware"
)

func main() {
  // Echo instance
  e := echo.New()

  // Middleware
  e.Use(middleware.Logger())
  e.Use(middleware.Recover())

  // Routes
  e.GET("/", hello)

  // Start server
  e.Logger.Fatal(e.Start(":1323"))
}

// Handler
func hello(c echo.Context) error {
  return c.String(http.StatusOK, "Hello, World!")
}

Version/commit

[aldas]

Currently there is not way to disable colorerin logger middleware

Code:

echo/middleware/logger.go

Line 100 in 2acb24a

config.colorer = color.New()

[lammel]

I'd also prefer to be able to disable coloring of output, so a PR would be welcome.
Colored log output is nice for the developer but usually not need in production (we are gathering logs to a central server, so coloring is more of a pain than helpful).

[aldas]

In that case I would remove coloring altogether. Adding another boolean or something like that would make just API more complex.

In my personal opinion - coloring of output is nice (cool effect) for demoing application startup and has little or no value for actual production environment.

most of the time I start Echo with echo.HideBanner and echo.HidePort and have custom statement to log version+address/port separately. so log rows end up in journald and other destinations in structured format (i'm using zerolog) and same for access log.

[lammel]

Seems like we have exactly the same issues with coloring in logging. And I take the exact same actions.
So I'm actually in favor of removing coloring too.

Maybe @pafuent and @vishr or other can show their opinion and others can 👍🏼 (to remove coloring) or 👎🏼 (to keep coloring) in the above post by @aldas .

[lammel]

Logging is overhauled with v5 with no colored output, so we can probably close this issue when we release v5.