align message level

lib/winston/common.js

@@ -118,6 +118,7 @@ exports.clone = function (obj) {
 //      message:   'message to serialize',
 //      meta:      'additional logging metadata to serialize',
 //      colorize:  false, // Colorizes output (only if `.json` is false)
+//      align:     false  // Align message level.
 //      timestamp: true   // Adds a timestamp to the serialized message
 //      label:     'label to prepend the message'
 //    }
@@ -204,6 +205,7 @@ exports.log = function (options) {
       : options.level;
   }
 
+  output += (options.align) ? '\t' : '';
   output += (timestamp || showLevel) ? ': ' : '';
   output += options.label ? ('[' + options.label + '] ') : '';
   output += options.colorize === 'all' || options.colorize === 'message'

lib/winston/transports/console.js

@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ var Console = exports.Console = function (options) {
   this.logstash    = options.logstash    || false;
   this.debugStdout = options.debugStdout || false;
   this.depth       = options.depth       || null;
+  this.align       = options.align       || false;
 
   if (this.json) {
     this.stringify = options.stringify || function (obj) {
@@ -79,6 +80,7 @@ Console.prototype.log = function (level, msg, meta, callback) {
     logstash:    this.logstash,
     depth:       this.depth,
     formatter:   this.formatter,
+    align:       this.align,
     humanReadableUnhandledException: this.humanReadableUnhandledException
   });
 

test/transports/console-test.js

@@ -14,7 +14,8 @@ var path = require('path'),
     stdMocks = require('std-mocks');
 
 var npmTransport = new (winston.transports.Console)(),
-    syslogTransport = new (winston.transports.Console)({ levels: winston.config.syslog.levels });
+    syslogTransport = new (winston.transports.Console)({ levels: winston.config.syslog.levels }),
+    alignTransport = new (winston.transports.Console)({ showLevel: true, align: true });
 
 vows.describe('winston/transports/console').addBatch({
   "An instance of the Console Transport": {
@@ -65,4 +66,33 @@ vows.describe('winston/transports/console').addBatch({
       })
     }
   }
+}).addBatch({
+  "An instance of the Console Transport with the align option on": {
+    topic : function() {
+      stdMocks.use();
+      alignTransport.log('info', '');
+    },
+    "should have logs aligned": function () {
+      stdMocks.restore();
+      var output = stdMocks.flush(),
+          line   = output.stdout[0];
+
+      assert.equal(line, 'info\011: \n');
+    }
+  }
+}).addBatch({
+  "with align off": {
+    topic : function() {
+      alignTransport.align = false;
+      stdMocks.use();
+      alignTransport.log('info', '');
+    },
+    "should not have logs aligned": function () {
+      stdMocks.restore();
+      var output = stdMocks.flush(),
+          line   = output.stdout[0];
+
+      assert.equal(line, 'info: \n');
+    }
+  }
 }).export(module);