New feature: use multiple reporters

[wichert]

I would like to be able to use both the standard reporter and the junit reporter at the same time. I think my use cases is a common one: I want human readable output on stdout so the emails jenkins sends me are useful, but I want the junit XML output for tracking purposes.

Looking at other test runners I use they handle this by always reporting to stdout while an XML output option creates one or more XML files in junit format in addition to the normal stdout output.

[philsquared]

Oddly enough the very first versions of Catch did support multiple reporters.
It was causing a lot of out-of-proportion (at the time) complexity and after some thought (and discussion with peers) decided that it was not something that was really useful, so I took it out in the name of simplicity.

At this point I think it could be supported with fairly low complexity, so I'm going to look at it again.
It might have to wait a bit, though, as I have quite a lot on my queue at the moment.

[michaelbprice]

@philsquared, we are working on a tool that allows people to more easily migrate between test frameworks without having to rewrite a whole bunch of existing test code. Having the ability to have multiple reporters registered during a single call to Session::run would be incredibly valuable.

It looks like this issue is quite old at this point. If there were a pull request that implemented this feature (we almost hacked one up that worked around the framework limitation), would you consider it for inclusion?

[philsquared]

Catch does actually now support multiple reporters

[Reonaydo]

Catch does actually now support multiple reporters

How it can be used? How can I set write "junit" into file and "console" to stdout ?

[philsquared]

I was probably a bit premature in announcing that.
Technically Catch does support multiple reporters - but not in any useful way yet. Or rather it supports them for the purpose of Listeners. As a side effect you can specify multiple reporters, but there is currently no way to specify different locations for them to write to - so they all go either to the console or to the same file. Like I said, not useful.
It shouldn't be a huge job to address that but it's just not been high enough priority yet.
Hopefully will get to it at some point.

[LesserBabka]

I would also appreciate this functionality (to be useful).

[fbradyirl]

It would be great to see this implemented.

[cjw296]

Would still be great to see this, or are there other solutions (nested reported or some such?)

[Viatorus]

@philsquared Can we please reopen this issues?

[horenmar]

@Viatorus #1712