Transport Formatter not called/used.

This might be more of a question than an ‘issue’. I am trying to use a custom formatter with a logging transport. It seems that the formatter function is ignored in my simple test. I’ve taken and slightly modified the example from the README:

'use strict';
var winston = require('winston');
var logger = new (winston.Logger)({
    transports: [
        new (winston.transports.Console)({
            timestamp: function() {
                return Date.now();
            },
            formatter: function(options) {
                // Return string will be passed to logger.
                return 'MEOW!';
            }
        })
    ]
});
logger.info('Data to log.');

I am expecting the output (to stdout in this case) to be: “MEOW” Instead the output is:“1422632922024 - info: Data to log.” Which, I believe, is the default. Am I missing something?

Thanks!

[npanone]

Just ran into this and came up with a work around that worked out for me.

var logger = new winston.Logger({
    transports: [
        new (winston.transports.File)({
            filename: path,
            json: true,
            stringify: function (options) {
                return  <formatted string>;
            }
        })
    ]
});

[liamzh]

@calebbrewer try this?

logger = new (winston.Logger)({
  transports: [
    new (winston.transports.File)({
      json: false,
      filename: path,
      formatter: (options) ->
        options.message
    })
  ]
})