Marker is the easiest way to match and mark strings for colorful terminal outputs.

marker

Marker is built for easily match and mark strings for colorful terminal outputs. You can match your strings with built-in matchers or easily implement a custom matcher for your usecase. Marker uses fatih/color for colorizing terminal output.

Installation

go get github.com/cyucelen/marker

Basic Usage

Marker has very simple and extensible way to get your strings colorful and brilliant!

Example

aristotleQuote := "The more you know, the more you realize you don't know."
emphasized := marker.Mark(aristotleQuote, marker.MatchAll("know"), color.New(color.FgRed))
fmt.Println(emphasized)

Table of Contents

• Mark Your Log Stream
• Custom io.Writer out for log interface
• Matchers
  • MatchAll
  • MatchN
  • MatchRegexp
  • MatchSurrounded
  • MatchBracketSurrounded
  • MatchParensSurrounded
  • MatchTimestamp
  • Builder way
  • Writing your custom Matcher
• Contribution

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Mark Your Log Stream

You may want to instrument a logger such that any output coming from it is colorized in the expected manner. marker contains functionality which can be easily integrated with Golang's log or any interface that supports io.Writer.

stdoutMarker := marker.NewStdoutMarker()
markRules := []marker.MarkRule{
  {marker.MatchBracketSurrounded(), color.New(color.FgBlue)},
  {marker.MatchAll("marker"), color.New(color.FgRed)},
}

stdoutMarker.AddRules(markRules)
logger := log.New(stdoutMarker, "", 0)

logger.Println("[INFO] marker is working as expected")

Custom io.Writer out for log interface

marker also allows you to specify the io.Writer that you want to send output to. This is useful if the logger is writing to somewhere other than stdout like a file.

f, _ := os.Create("/tmp/awesome.log")
w := bufio.NewWriter(f)

writeMarker := marker.NewWriteMarker(w)

markRules := []marker.MarkRule{
  {marker.MatchBracketSurrounded(), blueFg},
  {marker.MatchAll("marker"), magentaFg},
}

writeMarker.AddRules(markRules)

logger := log.New(writeMarker, "", 0)
logger.Println("[INFO] colorful logs even in files, marker to mark them all!")

w.Flush()
f.Close()

output := catFile("/tmp/awesome.log") // $ cat /tmp/awesome.log
fmt.Print(output)

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Matchers

MatchAll

aristotleQuote := "The more you know, the more you realize you don't know."
emphasized := marker.Mark(aristotleQuote, marker.MatchAll("know"), color.New(color.FgRed))
fmt.Println(emphasized)

MatchN

boringLog := "[INFO] Nobody wants to read pale [INFO] tags."
brilliantLog := marker.Mark(boringLog, marker.MatchN("[INFO]", 1), color.New(color.FgBlue))
fmt.Println(brilliantLog)

MatchRegexp

rhyme := "I scream, you all scream, we all scream for ice cream."
r, _ := regexp.Compile("([a-z]?cream)")
careAboutCream := marker.Mark(rhyme, marker.MatchRegexp(r), color.New(color.FgYellow))
fmt.Println(careAboutCream)

MatchSurrounded

sentence := "I pull out things surrounded by abcWHOA COLORSdef"
markedSurrounded := marker.Mark(sentence, marker.MatchSurrounded("abc", "def"), color.New(color.FgMagenta))
fmt.Println(markedSurrounded)

MatchBracketSurrounded

sentence = "[INFO] This is what log lines look like"
markedSurrounded = marker.Mark(sentence, marker.MatchBracketSurrounded(), color.New(color.FgRed))
fmt.Println(markedSurrounded)

MatchParensSurrounded

sentence = "[ERROR] This is what (parens) lines look like"
markedSurrounded = marker.Mark(sentence, marker.MatchParensSurrounded(), color.New(color.FgBlue))
fmt.Println(markedSurrounded)

MatchTimestamp

MatchTimestamp can be used for matching the timestamps fits the layouts in Golang's time.

All possible formats can be found here.

  goodOldTimes := "2006-01-02T15:04:05Z07:00 [INFO] Loading King of Fighters '97 ROM"
  timestampMarked := marker.Mark(goodOldTimes, marker.MatchTimestamp(time.RFC3339), color.New(color.FgBlue))
  fmt.Println(timestampMarked)

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Builder way

If you want to mark different patterns in the same string, marker builder is neater way to do this.

rhyme := "I scream, you all scream, we all scream for ice cream."
b := &marker.MarkBuilder{}
r, _ := regexp.Compile("([a-z]?cream)")

markedWithBuilder := b.SetString(rhyme).
  Mark(marker.MatchN("for ice", 1), color.New(color.FgRed)).
  Mark(marker.MatchAll("all"), color.New(color.FgMagenta)).
  Mark(marker.MatchRegexp(r), color.New(color.FgYellow)).
  Build()

fmt.Println(markedWithBuilder)

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Writing your custom Matcher

As you see in above examples, Mark function takes an MatcherFunc to match the patterns in given string and colorize them. A Matcher is a simple closure that returns a MatcherFunc to be called by Mark function to get Match information to put colorized versions of patterns into template.

Lets write our own custom Matcher that matches first encounter of given pattern.

Example

  func MatchFirst(pattern string) marker.MatcherFunc {
    return func(str string) marker.Match {
      return marker.Match{
        // replace first matching pattern with %s
        Template: strings.Replace(str, pattern, "%s", 1),
        // patterns to be colorized by Mark, in order
        Patterns: []string{pattern},
      }
    }
  }

You can also check built-in matchers for inspiration.

Contribution

I would like to accept any contributions to make Marker better and feature rich. So feel free to contribute your features(i.e. more Matchers!), improvements and fixes.

Have fun!