Saving JSON while showing human readable errors

[abitrolly]

GitLab runs vale twice. Once to get human readable errors and fail.

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/jobs/7120216279#L103

And second time to get report artifact for code quality reporting tools.

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/jobs/7120216305#L29

Is it possible to have both with a single run?

[jdkato]

No, this isn't possible.

Although, presumably, you could generate both output formats from a single run using --ouput=JSON and a post-processing script.

[abitrolly]

Yes, but the problem is how to make human readable errors with colors from this JSON.

For postprocessing maybe it is possible to add the vale report command, which gets events in JSONL format from stdin, or JSON from a file and writes report in required format.

vale --output events | tee >(vale report JSON report.json) | vale report

The command uses process substitution to send stdout from vale --output events (which should produce JSONL) to tee, which splits the stdout into vale report JSON report.json process and also sends it further down the pipeline to vale report. The last one produces readable output.