Feature: Adds option for formatted, colored console prints

doc/100-General/10-Changelog.md

@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ Released closed milestones can be found on [GitHub](https://github.com/Icinga/ic
 * [#633](https://github.com/Icinga/icinga-powershell-framework/pull/633) Adds support for Icinga 2.14.0 native Icinga for Windows API communication
 * [#635](https://github.com/Icinga/icinga-powershell-framework/pull/635) Adds support for `Write-IcingaAgentApiConfig` function to configure the Icinga Agent TLS cipher list setting by new argument `-CipherList`
 * [#637](https://github.com/Icinga/icinga-powershell-framework/pull/637) Adds new base handling for future data providers with first metrics for `CPU` information
+* [#638](https://github.com/Icinga/icinga-powershell-framework/pull/638) Adds option for formatted, colored console prints with `Write-ColoredOutput`
 * [#640](https://github.com/Icinga/icinga-powershell-framework/issues/640) Adds support to set the flag `-NoSSLValidation` for Cmdlets `icinga` and `Install-Icinga`, to ignore errors on self-signed certificates within the environment
 * [#643](https://github.com/Icinga/icinga-powershell-framework/pull/643) Adds support for `-RebuildCache` flag on `icinga` cmd to rebuild component cache as well
 * [#644](https://github.com/Icinga/icinga-powershell-framework/pull/644) Adds progress bar output to repository interaction (sync, update, new) instead of plain text output

lib/core/tools/Write-ColoredOutput.psm1

@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+<#
+.SYNOPSIS
+Colored console output
+
+.DESCRIPTION
+Print colored text on the console. 
+To specify the color you have to use color tags
+
+.PARAMETER Text
+The text to print
+
+.EXAMPLE
+Write-ColoredOutput -Text "uncolored text<blue>blue text</>uncolored text<green>green text</>"
+#>
+function Write-ColoredOutput() {
+    param (
+        [string]$Text = ''
+    );
+
+    <# 
+        Define opening and closing tag and build regex
+        Example <red>text</>
+    #>
+    $colorTagOpen  = '<';
+    $colorTagClose = '>';
+    $regexEndTag   = '</>';
+    $regexStartTag = [string]::Format('{0}[A-Za-z]+{1}', $colorTagOpen, $colorTagClose);
+    $textParts     = [regex]::Split($Text, "($regexStartTag.*?$regexEndTag)");
+
+
+    # Loop over all parts
+    foreach ($part in $textParts) {
+
+        # Check if current part is color tagged
+        if ($part -match "^$regexStartTag.*?$regexEndTag$") {
+
+            # Get color tag
+            $colorTag   = [regex]::Matches($cuttedPart, $regexStartTag).Value;
+
+            # Get color out of color tag
+            $color      = $colorTag.substring($colorTagOpen.Length, $colorTag.Length - ($colorTagOpen.Length + $colorTagClose.Length));
+
+            # Cut opening tag
+            $finalPart  = $cuttedPart.substring($colorTag.Length, $cuttedPart.length - $colorTag.Length);
+
+            # Cut closing tag
+            $cuttedPart = $part.substring(0, $part.Length - $regexEndTag.Length);
+
+            <# 
+                Try colored printing. If color does not exist, 
+                catch runtime error and simply print normal
+            #>
+            try {
+                Write-Host -NoNewline -ForegroundColor $color $finalPart;
+            } catch {
+                Write-Host -NoNewline $part;
+            }
+
+            continue;
+        }
+
+        # Print non tagged, uncolored part
+        Write-Host -NoNewline $part;
+    }
+}