Filter $log message types

[Martinspire]

When developing i often write "$log" (or mostly "console.log" but i recently started with "$log") commands to see what my data is and if everything goes ok. So when there's something wrong i know i should debug and see what happens. Since i log a lot, the console fills up pretty fast and especially when i'm logging data being sent and received from my API.

But for the most part i'm not really interested in most $log commands if they are written with $log.log. "$log.warn" or "$log.error" are mostly interesting.

Now the "$log" command has a provider called "$logProvider" which features a setting called "debugEnabled". This turns "$log" on/off completely. But wouldn't it be nice if we could set what logs we do and do not want to see? For instance, when i'm releasing, i want to hide everything but most times i'm interested in errors or warnings.

So if we'd add a setting called "$logProvider.debugLevel" or something to set what messages to log, we'd get a proper way of filtering the messages ourselves. Perhaps you could use this to replace the "debugEnabled" setting, so we have a bit more options. An integer would probably work best for $log.log begin the lowest and $log.error being the highest.

Another thing i'm interested in: why not able users to also have an easy way for displaying $log messages on the front-end too? I cannot see the $log commands on my phone when i'm testing there.

[thebigredgeek]

#8832