impossible to disable logging to file in start_service ?

[mknaw]

please excuse my ignorance as I am new to the pact approach. perhaps there is something I am missing in the recommended workflow.

it seems like during normal local development, I may run my test suite without any interest in collecting pact-mock-service.log files

ultimately I suppose I could .gitignore these files in each consumer service... but it seems like it would be nice if I could provide something to pact constructor's log_dir or otherwise to opt out of the logging?
appears to be hardcoded in the start_service command currently

[YOU54F]

You are correct, it just isn't implemented as a feature.

It defaults to the current directory,

pact-python/pact/pact.py

Line 138 in 00dcacd

self.log_dir = log_dir or os.getcwd()

and then always applied to the underlying mock server cli call

pact-python/pact/pact.py

Line 203 in 00dcacd

"--log", f"{self.log_dir}/pact-mock-service.log",

contributions are welcome 👍🏾

[YOU54F]

The default workflow in the majority of our repos, bar where they are shown for demonstration purposes is to .gitignore the log files and pact files which are generated each run, so they are not committed to source.

I would imagine if you did have the option, you may want to configure it from the outside, rather than having to update your code, to provide you logging by file, in the case of troubleshooting.

Does it log the same to stdout, as provided in the log file?