hapi.js - Logging with good and good-console

When I try to run this code I get the following:

Invalid monitorOptions options child "reporters" fails because ["reporters" must be an object]

Any ideas?

I am having the same problem. I tried googling it and found responses indicating a version mismatch between good and good-console packages. I tried having the same versions for both the packages and still get the same error.

The versions that do work well with each other are the ones mentioned in the video, good@6.4.0 and good-console@5.1.0

I'm not off to a good start here– I'm seeing the same Error: Invalid monitorOptions options child "reporters" fails because ["reporters" must be an array] message that others are reporting. I've even tried specifying exact versions to match the package.json in the video.

"good": "6.4.0",
"good-console": "5.1.0",
"hapi": "11.0.3"

$ node -v 
> v6.2.0

Your Node.js version may be the issue. Hapi before v13.4 is known not to be compatible with Node.js v6.

I just cut and pasted the example code with the same hapi, good and good-console versions as you, and tried with Node.js v5.2 and it worked without an issue.

I also got this error.

As of a few weeks ago (today being June 23rd), the current version of Good is at 7.0.1.

The maintainers seem to have significantly changed the way plugin configurations are defined, so instead of reporters being an array, like it is in the video, you now pass it keys with array values. Based on the example from their readme, the new options object should be something like:

let goodOptions = {
  reporters: {
    console: [{
            module: 'good-squeeze',
            name: 'Squeeze',
            args: [{ log: '*', response: '*' }]
        }, {
            module: 'good-console'
        }, 'stdout'],
  }
}

That seems to work in Node 4+

cheers!

I am new to programming, but i am tired to waste time on tutorial that never work because of out of date stuff. I have the last version of all the things (node 6 and "dependencies": { "good": "^7.0.1", "good-console": "^6.1.2", "hapi": "^13.5.0" })

let goodOptions = { reporters: { console: [{ module: 'good-console' }, 'stdout'], } }

Its work

Correct ;) in this lesson, the goodOptions object should be:

let goodOptions = {
  reporters: {
    console: [
      {
        module: 'good-console',
        args: [{ log: '*', response: '*' }]
      },
      'stdout'
    ]
  }
}

The good-squeeze transform stream isn't needed

cheers!

Thanks Charles!

This is the working solution goodOptions variable for the current version of Node. Thank You

Thanks!

I was trying to get the Good plugin to filter log messages by event type, e.g. to exclude info-level statements, the same way it's been demonstrated in the video.

But when I tried the solution provided by Charles and others, I realised the stuff assigned to the args config key gets completely ignored. If you go

args: [{ log: ['error'], response: '*' }]

you will still be seeing non-error log entries.

So I've poked around the Good plugins documentation and examples and the conclusion is you do need Squeeze to gain more granular control over what actually gets logged.

The configuration below seems to do the job:

let goodOptions = {
  reporters: {
    console: [
      {
        module: 'good-squeeze',
        name: 'Squeeze',
        args: [{
          log: ['error', 'warn'],
          response: '*'
        }]
      }, {
        module: 'good-console',
        args: [{ format: 'YYYYMMDD/HHmmss.SSS' }]
      },
      'stdout'
    ]
  }
}

Please note, I've included the format setting for illustrative purposes only. This is just to point out the config passed to args needs to conform to the good-console config object format (see the project's README) and not the events object format expected by the Squeeze constructor.

thanks Roman it worked for me (y)