Taking advantage of the new LogMessageFormatter return type, the
ConsoleLogAppender logs the formatted message as-is if it is a string,
but when processing structured data inserts a string summary consisting
of the message level, scope, and message summary or method. The full
object is still logged to the console as well for inspection.
Originally the idea was that a log formatter should turn the LogMessage
into a string that can be appended via a LogAppender. However, all of
the default LogAppenders can handle objects. In particular, the
ConsoleLogAppender writes to the browser console which offers an
interactive UI experience when logging raw objects.
For LogAppenders that can only manage text, it seems an acceptable
design decision to require users to provide a LogMessageFormatter that
returns a string, or accept some sane default like JSON.stringify if
their formatter returns objects.
- Added `flattenMessage` and `FlattenedLogMessage` to default to
structured logging.
- Rework the logic formatting messages for the ConsoleLogger.
- Add a more comprehensive README.
jdb