Logger: Add method for writing to stdout

Usually this just writes to stdout, but for ProgressBar, we need to
clear the current line, write the line to stdout, and then redraw the
progress bar.

2 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/libutil/logging.cc b/src/libutil/logging.cc
index bb437cf1c..3cc4ef8f1 100644
--- a/src/libutil/logging.cc
+++ b/src/libutil/logging.cc
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 
 #include <atomic>
 #include <nlohmann/json.hpp>
+#include <iostream>
 
 namespace nix {
 
@@ -24,6 +25,11 @@ void Logger::warn(const std::string & msg)
     log(lvlWarn, ANSI_YELLOW "warning:" ANSI_NORMAL " " + msg);
 }
 
+void Logger::writeToStdout(std::string_view s)
+{
+    std::cout << s << "\n";
+}
+
 class SimpleLogger : public Logger
 {
 public:
diff --git a/src/libutil/logging.hh b/src/libutil/logging.hh
index 108b5dcb0..18c24d508 100644
--- a/src/libutil/logging.hh
+++ b/src/libutil/logging.hh
@@ -78,6 +78,16 @@ public:
     virtual void stopActivity(ActivityId act) { };
 
     virtual void result(ActivityId act, ResultType type, const Fields & fields) { };
+
+    virtual void writeToStdout(std::string_view s);
+
+    template<typename... Args>
+    inline void stdout(const std::string & fs, const Args & ... args)
+    {
+        boost::format f(fs);
+        formatHelper(f, args...);
+        writeToStdout(f.str());
+    }
 };
 
 ActivityId getCurActivity();