Winston: How do i prevent winston from polluting my Mocha test report?

Created on 28 Feb 2018 · 3Comments · Source: winstonjs/winston

I am struggling to find a way to silence winston during my test execution.
It keeps logging all my caught exceptions even when i am testing for errors.

The silent flag does not seem to work at all.
Could you help me please?

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bertolo1988

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As temporary solution its possible to add empty array of levels. Smth like this

winston.createLogger({
  ...
  level: []
  ...
});

With Mocha and NODE_ENV:

package.json
...
"test": "NODE_ENV=test mocha test"
...

level: process.env.NODE_ENV === 'test' ? [] : process.env.LOGGER_LEVEL,

gigi on 21 Mar 2018

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As temporary solution its possible to add empty array of levels. Smth like this

winston.createLogger({
  ...
  level: []
  ...
});

With Mocha and NODE_ENV:

package.json
...
"test": "NODE_ENV=test mocha test"
...

level: process.env.NODE_ENV === 'test' ? [] : process.env.LOGGER_LEVEL,

gigi on 21 Mar 2018

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@gigi it helped! Nice tip, thanks.

bertolo1988 on 21 Mar 2018

@bertolo1988 @gigi this will be fixed as https://github.com/winstonjs/winston/issues/1245. Re-adding the silent option from winston@2 because it is a cross-cutting concern that relates to the objectMode stream mechanics and not specific formatting.