Stdout

Defines a tool for intercepting, displaying, filtering and searching text sent to the application’s stdout and/or stderr files.

Using the various options in the tool’s options dialog, avaiable from the tool’s feature toolbar, you can specify:

• Whether output send to stdout should be intercepted by the tool.
• Whether output sent to stderr should be intercepted by the tool.
• Whether any intercepted output should also be forwarded to the original stdout and/or stderr file handles.
• The maximum number of lines the tool should handle. Once the maximum number of lines is exceeded, the tool will start discarding the earliest lines captured.

The stdout tool also allows you to filter and search the intercepted output using either case sensitive or case insensitive matching. Filtering output removes non-matching lines from the display. Searching output selects all matching lines in the display. You can perform either operation by typing the text to match on in either the Filter or Search input fields located at the top of the tool’s view.

Module

facets.extra.tools.stdout

Input Connections

None.

Output Connections

selected_text

The currently selected lines within the tool are sent as a single string to any connected tools.

Options

The stdout tool supports setting the following option facets through the tool’s options dialog available via the tool’s feature toolbar:

Intercept stdout (stdout_enabled)

Specifies whether output to stdout should be intercepted.

Intercept stderr (stderr_enabled)

Specifies whether output to stderr should be intercepted.

Enable passthru (passthru)

Specifies whether intecepted output should also be forwared to the original stdout and/or stderr file handles.

Maximum # of lines (max_lines)

Specifies the maximum number of lines the tool should handle before beginning to discard the earliest lines captured.

Screenshots

Shows the stdout tool filtering and searching for particular lines in the stdout output.

The stdout tool’s options dialog.