Is there a way to get the formatted output string inside the format function?

[JimtotheB]

Im looking for a way to get the formatted string that morgan would otherwise send to the console, so I can pass it and an object representing the data to my logger. Currently I am just building the object with tokens['token'] and using that object to build up a string to output, but it is rather ugly and hard to match the format that morgan outputs on its own.

[dougwilson]

I'm not 100% sure what the question is, but based on https://github.com/PaperElectron/Pomegranate/blob/master/lib/Middleware.js#L92 , #24 may help you. Let me know if it doesn't and can you provide an example of what you're trying to do?

[dougwilson]

Nevermind on my above response; I didn't read down in your code. Let me see what I can come up with.

[JimtotheB]

Sorry, I didn't think to just link the code in question. I was currently messing around with creating a new instance of morgan inside the format function and passing in a fake next(), but that doesn't solve the problem because it still just writes to stdout. So I figured I would ask here in case there is a simple answer.

[dougwilson]

Closing, as the new morgan.compile should provide the necessary hook (and only requires a single eval at script start up, to boot). Example is over at the PR: #62 (comment)