logging handler is not using any formater

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Project: craft-cli
Number: #135
Type: issue
State: open
Author: rgildein
Labels: —
Created: 2023-01-27 10:13 AM UTC
Updated: 2023-01-27 10:13 AM UTC
Closed: —

Current evaluation

Enhancement request: craft_cli _Handler.emit uses record.getMessage() and ignores self.formatter, so log format can't be customised. Confirmed still unfixed at current HEAD; no maintainer response or labels.

Suggested action: needs triage

Reason: The report is still accurate: craft_cli/messages.py:395 still does `text = record.getMessage()` with no `setFormatter` call anywhere in the repo, and a pickaxe search for `self.format(record)` across all history returns no commits, so nothing fixed it. Impact is minor (a default identity formatter would reproduce today's output, so this is a nicety for consumers who want custom formats), but the exact public API for supplying a format is unspecified since `_Handler` is private and only attached to the root logger at messages.py:511. Despite being open 1344 days with zero comments, no labels and no assignee, it is not stale — the code path is alive — so it has simply never been triaged by a maintainer.

Evaluated by: mr-cal-bot

Impact: 28 Quick Win: 13 Complexity: 20 Confidence: 78 Actionability: 60

Issue body

Currently [`_Handler.emit`](https://github.com/canonical/craft-cli/blob/5e01d366976509d70869e52d9266d4af191e8a8a/craft_cli/messages.py#L328) function is not using `self.formatter` to format message, so instead of `msg = self.format(record)` only `msg = record.getMessage()` is used. I think that by default [`_Handler`](https://github.com/canonical/craft-cli/blob/5e01d366976509d70869e52d9266d4af191e8a8a/craft_cli/messages.py#L316) could use formatter with simple `%(message)s`, but it could be useful to add custom format here.

Evaluation history

Date	Model	Scores	Action	Summary
2026-10-02 05:53 PM UTC	stealth/space-bunny-alpha	Impact: 28 Quick Win: 13 Complexity: 20 Confidence: 78 Actionability: 60	needs triage	Enhancement request: craft_cli _Handler.emit uses record.getMessage() and ignores self.formatter, so log format can't be customised. Confirmed still unfixed at current HEAD; no maintainer response or labels.
2026-10-02 05:53 PM UTC	stealth/space-bunny-alpha	Impact: 28 Quick Win: 15 Complexity: 18 Confidence: 86 Actionability: 66	needs triage	Enhancement request: _Handler.emit in craft_cli/messages.py uses record.getMessage() and ignores self.formatter, so users cannot customize log message format; still present at current HEAD.
2026-09-21 03:46 PM UTC	qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b	Impact: 30 Quick Win: 22 Complexity: 10 Confidence: 80 Actionability: 80	needs triage	The _Handler.emit method ignores assigned formatters by using record.getMessage() instead of self.format(record). The issue is valid but unlabelled and has no maintainer response.
2026-09-01 04:45 AM UTC	qwen/qwen3.8-27b	Impact: 10 Quick Win: 8 Staleness: 90 Complexity: 15 Confidence: 85 Support Request: 10	needs triage	craft-cli's _Handler.emit uses record.getMessage() instead of self.format(record), ignoring any formatter set on the handler. Code unchanged at HEAD; no labels, no maintainer response, 0 comments in 1312 days.
2026-07-22 12:17 PM UTC	qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b	Staleness: 95 Complexity: 15 Confidence: 70 Support Request: 5	needs triage	_Handler.emit in craft-cli ignores the configured formatter, using record.getMessage() instead of self.format(record). Untriaged, inactive for over 3 years.
2026-07-09 03:18 AM UTC	qwen3.6-35b-a3b-mtp-q6	Staleness: 95 Complexity: 20 Confidence: 80 Support Request: 5	close stale	Bug report stating the internal logging handler emit method ignores the formatter, using getMessage instead. Issue is 3.5 years old with no maintainer response or updates.

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