json log formatter ignores with_newline flag when jsonize is false

[daisy1754]

I wanted to change log format from json to hash, and tried below

logger.formatter.jsonize = false
logger.formatter.with_newline = true

Unfortunately this will produce log without newline because as shown in code below, with_newline flag is ignored if jsonize is false

ougai/lib/ougai/formatters/for_json.rb

Line 39 in 5584cd0

return data unless @jsonize

I'm happy to send PR to change behaviour but technically this will be breaking behaviour change so wanted to first open the issue.

[tilfin]

When jsonize option is false, Ougai does not write a string to log files or STDOUT. it pass hash object to the logdevice.
ref) https://github.com/tilfin/ougai/wiki/Forward-logs-to-Fluentd

What log format do you want at last?

[daisy1754]

Thanks for quick response. My end goal was to send log to GCP.

It seems that if you log string with json (like buyan formatter), GCP's log agent (which I think also is fluentd) just ignored my log entry. Problem is I cannot find log format the agent like, so I end up disabling jsonize.

With jsonize=false with default formatter, we at least was able to get log recognized, but multiple log entries were concatenated.

I endup writing custom formatter to make GCP (and datadog which we finally use for consuming log) happy, but if you have any suggestion that is appreciated.

[tilfin]

I wrote this a long time ago, but it may be helpful.
https://github.com/tilfin/fluent-plugin-bunyan-to-google-cloud-logging