Plugin logging on registration can't be made silent

[elmarco]

Hi,

When the plugins are init(), they log the registration:

[2020-02-06T14:47:46+01:00]  INFO plugins: Registering plugin "dns"
[2020-02-06T14:47:46+01:00]  INFO plugins: Registering plugin "file"
...

Unfortunately, I can't see a way to silent it, since init() is called early, before the program has the chance to change logrus behaviour. Please advise.

[elmarco]

so my current workaround is to have a custom plugin/import that does:

func init() {
	log := logger.GetLogger("plugins")
	log.Logger.SetLevel(logrus.WarnLevel)
}

This is fragile as Go doesn't guaratee init() ordering in this case, afaik.

[insomniacslk]

Hi @elmarco , the current method to register plugins is suboptimal, and will change. This is tracked in #45 and will let you do what you are asking here. It's faily simple to do, and I'll try to tackle it this week

[insomniacslk]

for an example of how it could look like, see how we register plugins in another project, https://github.com/facebookincubator/contest/blob/master/cmds/contest/main.go#L90

[insomniacslk]

@elmarco can you try with the latest commit? Now setting the log level globally should not print the plugin loading messages anymore.

We can also add a CLI flag for the purpose

[elmarco]

works for me, thanks