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Colors in Aspire logs are missing
Small visual bug. After upgrading to Rider 2024.1 and Aspire PlugIn 0.5.0, I've noticed that there are no colors on, e.g., info and warn in the Aspire Log files.
Here are two screenshots for running using the PlugIn vs. just running with the .NET project.
Running with .NET default (without using PlugIn):
Running with using PlugIn (notice no colors):
Any update on this? I know it’s just a visual thing, but it used to work, and I would speculate that it’s a simple fix.
There are no updates, and unfortunately it's not the easy one. It depends on how the IDE handles process output, and there is no convenient API to receive output with colors
There are no updates, and unfortunately it's not the easy one. It depends on how the IDE handles process output,
Hmm… But the colors are not missing in the IDE, but in the Aspire Dashboard. I’m not even sure how the Rider add-in can have an effect on how the Aspire Dashboard renders log output, but that is the case.
Again, I’m pretty sure this used to work sometime before April 18th, when I reported this.
Can this please be addressed? If I debug the apphost project without this plugin, I get colors in console logs but can't hit breakpoints or view console logs within the IDE. If I debug with this plugin, the console logs in the IDE and the aspire dashboard don't have any formatting or colors. This has to be just a random bug, given the colors come through when debugging apphost without the plugin.
A little more information. When debugging with this plugin, the console output in the Debug window works perfectly. However, in the Aspire section of the Services window, when viewing an individual resource (not the apphost), the console output there and in the aspire dashboard is messed up beyond just colors and formatting. It doesn't show console logs as they happen and instead shows them all at once when the application ends and sometimes is just missing some with blank lines. The structured logs through open telemetry in aspire dashboard have the same issue. These issues don't exist when debugging the aspire host without the plugin
As far as I can tell, in .NET 9 with plugin version 1.6.4 this works in the dashboard for me.
However, for executables but only in the (services tab) console window, it shows the printed ascii color codes.
2024-11-19T00:13:30.0430000Z [40m[32minfo[39m[22m[49m: StackExchange.Redis.ConnectionMultiplexer[0]
2024-11-19T00:13:30.0430000Z Total connect time: 53 ms
As far as I can tell, in .NET 9 with plugin version 1.6.4 this works in the dashboard for me.
Can you share a screenshot? After reading your comment, I eagerly updated to version 1.6.4, but I still don't have any colors in the Aspire Dashboard when starting to use this plugin.
Your issue with ASCII colors is likely related to the new improved support for ANSI escape codes in the Aspire 9 feature:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/aspire/whats-new/dotnet-aspire-9?tabs=windows#colorful-console-log
@rafaelldi It would be awesome if you could look into this. I'm pretty sure this used to work in the very first versions of this plug-in.
As I said, unfortunately, this is not an easy task, it will take quite a bit of time to implement, and I don't have enough resources for now. You can check the logs in the Services tool windows and Run/Debug tool windows, they should look okay.
Can you share a screenshot? After reading your comment, I eagerly updated to version 1.6.4, but I still don't have any colors in the Aspire Dashboard when starting to use this plugin.
I'm sorry, you are right. For normal projects it's still not working in Aspire dashboard. Executables though do seem to work. Projects however do work in the Services tool window.
I'm pretty sure this used to work in the very first versions of this plug-in.
I thought so.
@tjementum Probably, I've found a way to fix that, so after #313 it should work fine. At least, in my tests I don't see any problems
@tjementum Probably, I've found a way to fix that, so after #313 it should work fine. At least, in my tests I don't see any problems
Awesome... I can confirm that I now see colors. Thank you!