Using ANSI and %clr( ) with SpringBoot and Logback

[jase52476]

Sorry if this has been answered before (I searched the discussions and couldn't find anything), but is there a way to enable ANSI in the console appender with logstash?

I'm using SpringBoot spring-logback.xml and I tried doing something like this, but it's not working:

<encoder class="net.logstash.logback.encoder.LogstashEncoder">
                <!-- Add a new provider after those than come with the LogstashEncoder -->
                <provider class="net.logstash.logback.composite.loggingevent.LoggingEventPatternJsonProvider">
                    <pattern>
                        {
                        "message": "%mask(%m)"
                        ,"version": "%clr(${appVersion})"
                        ,"timestamp": "%d{${LOG_DATEFORMAT_PATTERN:-yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss'Z'}}"
                        }
                    </pattern>
                </provider>
                ...
</encoder>

Instead of seeing the ANSI colored text, it shows this:

"version":"\u001B[32m2.0.0\u001B[0;39m"

I do have this setting in the application.properties, and it's working with other appenders:

spring.output.ansi.enabled=ALWAYS

I ultimately would like the output to look like this:

[philsttr]

I haven't tried it, but take a look at https://github.com/entur/jackson-syntax-highlight

You could write a decorator that utilizes json-syntax-highlight