Ability to overwrite test and suite summaries (to console) not available?

I just may not be aware of the info/knowledge, and if that is the case, I can close this issue. Can the default test and suite summaries to console not be overwritten or removed?

TestNG Version

Any 7.1.0 7.0 6.14.3

Expected behavior

Implementation of listener(s) to overwrite/format/remove/customize default test and/or suite summaries.

Actual behavior

Using a listener which implements ITestListener & ISuiteListener and overriding the onFinish() methods, I was only able to add custom test and suite summaries, but not remove or overwrite/replace the default ones. I've also looked into IReporter and logger, but it is my understanding that IReporter is more for the output files and not so much for the console output, and from what I could gather about logger, it can not do what I'm looking for.

Is the issue reproductible on runner?

[ ] Shell
[X] Maven
[ ] Gradle
[ ] Ant
[X] Eclipse
[ ] IntelliJ
[ ] NetBeans

Follow up

Thank you for your suggestion, but it did not help to hide/remove/alter the default summaries either. I ended up just implementing IAlterSuiteListener to forcefully set suite and test verbose levels to 0.

@GandhiTC - Its not clear what your ask is.

The following are some of the default reporters that can be disabled.

org.testng.reporters.TestHTMLReporter - Produces the HTML reports
org.testng.reporters.JUnitXMLReporter - Produces the XML reports
org.testng.reporters.TextReporter - Produces verbose text reports on console depending upon the verbosity that you have set using the verbose attribute in your suite xml.

To disable them you would configure your suite fire plugin to look like below

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>3.0.0-M1</version>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <phase>test</phase>
        </execution>
    </executions>
    <configuration>
        <properties>
            <property>
                <name>usedefaultlisteners</name>
                <value>false</value>
            </property>
        </properties>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

Now to customize your reports the way you want, you can always build your own implementation that starts off by implementing either the

org.testng.ITestListener
org.testng.IReporter

and then wiring them using

@Listeners annotation (or)
<listeners> tag in your suite xml file

Here's a sample

import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;
import org.testng.ITestContext;
import org.testng.ITestListener;
import org.testng.ITestResult;
import org.testng.Reporter;

public class ConsoleLoggingListener implements ITestListener {

  @Override
  public void onFinish(ITestContext context) {
    System.err.println("Printing test reports for test <" + context.getName() + ">");
    report(context.getPassedTests().getAllResults(), "passed");
    report(context.getFailedTests().getAllResults(), "failed");
    report(context.getSkippedTests().getAllResults(), "skipped");
  }

  private void report(Set<ITestResult> results, String status) {
    if (results.isEmpty()) {
      return;
    }
    System.err.println("Test methods that " + status + " are as below");
    results.forEach(this::report);
  }

  private void report(ITestResult result) {
    String name = result.getMethod().getQualifiedName() + "()";
    System.err.println(name);
    List<String> output = Reporter.getOutput(result);
    if (!output.isEmpty()) {
      System.err.println("Test Method logs ");
      output.forEach(System.err::println);
    }
    if (result.getStatus() == ITestResult.SUCCESS) {
      return;
    }
    if (result.getStatus() == ITestResult.FAILURE) {
      System.err.println("Test Method failed due to ");
      result.getThrowable().printStackTrace();
    }
    if (result.getStatus() == ITestResult.SKIP) {
      System.err.println("Test Method skipped due to problems in the following methods");
      result
          .getSkipCausedBy()
          .forEach(iTestNGMethod -> System.err.println(iTestNGMethod.getQualifiedName()));
    }
  }
}

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