Getting Django runserver dev logging to output via Grunt

Question

I am (attempting) to learn to develop on Django, and coming from a Node background wanted to keep Grunt in my workflow. I use stylus and coffeescript, and use Grunt to watch and precompile the files for me, plus other small tasks.

To keep things compact, I had included grunt-shell-spawn, and was using it to run the server with:

python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

When I run this command from the command line by itself, I get full logging on requests, plus (more importantly) output from the print command. When I use grunt shell to handle this, the server loads and runs just fine, but I get no logging.

If there a way to get grunt / python to output the dev logging, as normal, when running the server via grunt?

THe full gruntfile for shell is:

shell: {
  django: {
    command: 'python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000',
    options: {
      stdout: true,
      async: true
    }
  }
},

and then I am calling it from concurrent as:

concurrent: {
  dev: {
    tasks: ['shell:django', 'watch'],
    options: {
      logConcurrentOutput: true
    }
  }
}

Thanks!

Answer 1

Im assuming you want this stuff, the Django server logs that lists HTTP requests and django logger reports. Example from our app:

[02/19/2014 22:34:30] ERROR : Details : [ Client ]: Mozilla [ Username ]: meanjim [ Id ]: 8278

[19/Feb/2014 22:34:30] "POST /api/logcabin/ HTTP/1.1" 200 16

[19/Feb/2014 22:34:30] "GET /data/get_lesson_plan.json/ HTTP/1.1" 200 1366

So all you have to do is add the following attributes to the options object inside what you already have for shell:django.

options: {
    stdout: true,
    stdin: true,
    stderr: true
}

Happy bug hunting friend.