console-formatter

console-fomratter is an NPM Library that pretty-prints testing results to the console This is a NodeJS version of the Bash Check Scirpt Formatter. There is also a Python3 Version. Eventually, a Powershell Version will be published.

Installation

To install the package locally, run the following. To install globally, add the -g flag

npm i console-formatter

Once installed, the module is available for import. There are two functions include in the package

• printTitle()
• printMsg()

Import the modules using require.

const printTitle = require('console-formatter').printTitle;
const printMsg = require('console-formatter').printMsg;

Usage

printTitle

To print an underlined title to the console, call it the printTitle function with a string

printTitle('This is a title')

printMsg

The printMsg function requires both a string and a integer. The integer represents an exit code. Number 0-4 are supported. Refer to the table below for each number's associated response code.

Integer	Response
0	SUCCESS
1	FAIL
2	WARNING
3	INFO

To call the printMsg function, run the following.

printMsg('Message to be displayed', 3)

Examples

The script below uses the npm package systemd-status. Thanks ZimGill. The script checks the status of a couple of systemd daemons and calls the printMsg function accordingly.

const systemdStatus = require('systemd-status');
const printTitle = require('console-formatter').printTitle;
const printMsg = require('console-formatter').printMsg;

printTitle('Test Systemd Service Status');

const currentStatus = systemdStatus(['httpd', 'firewalld' ]);

for (i=0; i<currentStatus.length; i++) {
        serviceName = currentStatus[i].name;
        serviceState = currentStatus[i].state;

        if (serviceState == 'running') {
                var rc = 0;
        } else if (serviceState = 'dead') {
                var rc = 2;
        }

        printMsg("Check " + serviceName + " is running", rc );
}

console.log('\n');

Results