No log output

[wyne]

I can't get any log output unless a test throws an error. I'm trying to get output of tests that are passing and any other test.info() calls. Here's the options I'm using:

      options: {
        test: true,
        direct: true,
        'log-level': 'info',
        'fail-fast': false
      }

[iamchrismiller]

wyne,

I think I understand your problem, you are logging info statements and aren't seeing them in stdout

After looking at the docs, it seems as if you need to flag it with verbose : true in order to see the logging. Let me know if that works.

http://docs.casperjs.org/en/latest/logging.html

Now, there are two things to distinguish: log storage and log display; by default CasperJS won’t print the logs to the standard output. In order to do so, you must enable the verbose Casper option:

[wyne]

Correct, that's the problem I'm experiencing.

I'm actually already using verbose: true in my casper setup. The strange thing is that if I keep everything the same and just use grunt-casperjs instead of this one, all the log messages are output.

Thanks for the reply. I'll keep investigating.

[iamchrismiller]

I am starting to look into it. How are you defining your tests to run with grunt-casper? Could you provide a sample test file?

I'll be in #grunt-casper IRC, if you want to step through it.

[wyne]

Gruntfile.js

module.exports = function(grunt) {
  grunt.initConfig({
    'pkg': grunt.file.readJSON('package.json'),
    casper: {
      options: {
        test: true,
        direct: true,
        'log-level': 'info',
        'fail-fast': false
      },
      mytask: {
        src: ['tests/website/basic-tests.js']
      },
    }
  });

  grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-casper');

  // Default use from command line
  grunt.registerTask('default', ['casper']);

  grunt.registerTask('mytask', ['casper:mytask']);
};

basic-tests.js

// Patching phantomjs' require()
var require = patchRequire(require);

// Casper config
var casper = require('casper').create({
  clientScripts: [
    'includes/jquery.js',
    'includes/underscore.js'
  ],
  pageSettings: {
    loadImages: false,
    loadPlugins: false
  },
  verbose: true
});

// Initialize test
casper.test.begin('Website loads', 1, function suite(test) {
  casper.start('http://localhost').then(function() {

    // ...

    test.pass("This worked");

  }).then(function() {

    test.info("Output");

  }).then(function() {
    test.done();
  });

  casper.run();
});

Output

$ grunt website
Running "casper:mytask" (casper) task

Done, without errors.

Expected to see [info] output as well the "This worked" test pass.

[iamchrismiller]

Try This: logLevel : 'info' in the create options hash

var casper = require('casper').create({ clientScripts: [ 'includes/jquery.js', 'includes/underscore.js' ], pageSettings: { loadImages: false, loadPlugins: false }, verbose: true, logLevel : 'info' });

I will look into making it work on a global level defined in the Gruntfile

[wyne]

Sorry, I tried that earlier and that didn't work either.

[iamchrismiller]

Are you using the casper dev branch? 1.1.0-DEV?

[iamchrismiller]

After looking into the task, I realized i am logging to grunts verbose output. Adding a verbose flag when running grunt will work or you can pull master (v0.1.3) and I replaced the grunt.verbose.write() -> grunt.log.write(). For caught errors it naturally would grunt.log the error. All casper output is now printed to the console.

[wyne]

Awesome! That fixed it. Thanks!

Will this be available in npm?

[iamchrismiller]

No Problem,

I just published the new version on NPM.