fixed broken color output on windows

app/main/color_printer.go

@@ -5,8 +5,11 @@ package main
 
 import (
 	"fmt"
+	"io"
+	"os"
 
 	"github.com/fatih/color"
+	"github.com/mattn/go-colorable"
 )
 
 const (
@@ -45,6 +48,12 @@ func (s ColorPrinter) GetFuncMap() map[string]interface{} {
 		"KeyColor":      s.Key}
 }
 
+// NewColorableWriter returns a colorable writer for the given file (e.g
+// os.Stdout). Needed for on windows platform.
+func NewColorableWriter(file *os.File) io.Writer {
+	return colorable.NewColorable(file)
+}
+
 // NewColorPrinter returns a ColorPrinter used to color the console
 // output. If noColor is set to true, a no-op color printer is returned.
 func NewColorPrinter(noColor bool) ColorPrinter {

app/main/main.go

@@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ func startInfoMode(rootNode string, client *rabtap.RabbitHTTPClient,
 	brokerInfo, err := NewBrokerInfo(client)
 	failOnError(err, "failed retrieving info from rabbitmq REST api", os.Exit)
 	brokerInfoPrinter := NewBrokerInfoPrinter(printBrokerInfoConfig)
-	brokerInfoPrinter.Print(brokerInfo, rootNode, os.Stdout)
+	brokerInfoPrinter.Print(brokerInfo, rootNode, NewColorableWriter(os.Stdout))
 }
 
 // piblishMessage publishes a message on the given exchange with the provided
@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ func main() {
 		signalChannel := make(chan os.Signal, 1)
 		// messageReceiveFunc receives the tapped messages, prints
 		// and optionally saves them.
-		messageReceiveFunc := createMessageReceiveFunc(os.Stdout,
+		messageReceiveFunc := createMessageReceiveFunc(NewColorableWriter(os.Stdout),
 			args.JSONFormat, args.SaveDir, args.NoColor)
 		startTapMode(args.TapConfig, args.InsecureTLS, messageReceiveFunc, signalChannel)