It seems as

isort

doesn’t support saving the output error messages into a file (in the same way you can do

flake8 --output-file=reports/flake8.txt

). If I’d be calling

isort

on its own, I could just

tee

, but since it happens in the

./pants lint

call, I can’t do that. Have I overlooked anything in the options and it’s actually possible to produce a file report? Is it something we could extend in Pants itself to produce such a report?

i think similar to https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/14936 from @loud-laptop-17949

Out of curiosity, what's the use case?

I run the

./pants lint ::

in CI, then I’d like to post errors as a comment. That’s what I do with the formatting and linting issues found. I’ve taken this approach, because reading through the CI output is not a great DevX imho 🙂 hence the need for a file I could read and then post errors as comments

FYI that is roughly what Toolchain's BuildSense does 🙂 cc @happy-kitchen-89482 if you or anyone has interest in trying that out!

thanks, Eric! I’ll post an issue on isort GH page, perhaps this could be done upstream! I was just wondering if there is actually such an option and I have failed to find it 🙂

FWIW I made a PR where if lint fails due to a formatter it instructs the user to run fmt

It seems there are many tools that don't support writing their output to files. It would be great to add pants support for `tee`ing that output to a file for processing.

we use buildsense and I haven't seen this feature?

In that you can look at the outputs in the web UI in a sanitized way, that it will filter out each tool etc. That is, you don't have to look at the long CI log if you don't want Doesn't add comments for you, tho (yet at least)

yeah, something like

tee_stdout

and

tee_stdin

make sense to me, but only if you know what

tee

does

redirect_stdout

?

write_stdout

?

save_stdout

? (and do we have dedicated stdout vs stderr options, or we do both? or each tool decides?)

maybe save, I don't think redirect bc I think it should also go to stdout