Mithril client CLI output breaking change

Breaking change introduced in the output of Mithril client CLI

With the release of the new distribution 2408, we have introduced a breaking change to the Mithril client CLI version 0.7.0: all logs are now written to stderr instead of stdout. This allows for cleaner command results that you can directly pipe into tools like jq.

Below, the stdout output of mithril-client -vvv snapshot download latest --json command before the update:

{"timestamp": "2024-02-27T10:41:55.576645+00:00", "step_num": 1, "total_steps": 5, "message": "Checking local disk info…"}
{"timestamp": "2024-02-27T10:41:55.576932+00:00", "step_num": 2, "total_steps": 5, "message": "Fetching the certificate and verifying the certificate chain…"}
{"timestamp": "2024-02-27T10:41:55.847199+00:00", "step_num": 3, "total_steps": 5, "message": "Downloading and unpacking the snapshot…"}
{"timestamp": "2024-02-27T10:41:56.023585+00:00", "bytes_downloaded": 390, "bytes_total": 345223208, "seconds_left": 75797.765, "seconds_elapsed": 0.085}
{"timestamp": "2024-02-27T10:41:56.356820+00:00", "bytes_downloaded": 9487846, "bytes_total": 345223208, "seconds_left": 32.674, "seconds_elapsed": 0.418}
{"timestamp": "2024-02-27T10:41:56.690001+00:00", "bytes_downloaded": 21682030, "bytes_total": 345223208, "seconds_left": 18.209, "seconds_elapsed": 0.752}
{"timestamp": "2024-02-27T10:41:57.023923+00:00", "bytes_downloaded": 33795639, "bytes_total": 345223208, "seconds_left": 14.218, "seconds_elapsed": 1.085}
{"timestamp": "2024-02-27T10:41:57.356999+00:00", "bytes_downloaded": 45934938, "bytes_total": 345223208, "seconds_left": 12.204, "seconds_elapsed": 1.419}
{"timestamp": "2024-02-27T10:41:57.690031+00:00", "bytes_downloaded": 58130472, "bytes_total": 345223208, "seconds_left": 10.894, "seconds_elapsed": 1.752}
{"timestamp": "2024-02-27T10:41:58.023964+00:00", "bytes_downloaded": 70235494, "bytes_total": 345223208, "seconds_left": 9.922, "seconds_elapsed": 2.086}
{"timestamp": "2024-02-27T10:41:58.357817+00:00", "bytes_downloaded": 82456663, "bytes_total": 345223208, "seconds_left": 9.134, "seconds_elapsed": 2.419}
{"timestamp": "2024-02-27T10:41:58.690945+00:00", "bytes_downloaded": 94618128, "bytes_total": 345223208, "seconds_left": 8.463, "seconds_elapsed": 2.753}
{"timestamp": "2024-02-27T10:41:59.024599+00:00", "bytes_downloaded": 106765259, "bytes_total": 345223208, "seconds_left": 7.868, "seconds_elapsed": 3.086}
{"timestamp": "2024-02-27T10:41:59.358139+00:00", "bytes_downloaded": 118941687, "bytes_total": 345223208, "seconds_left": 7.325, "seconds_elapsed": 3.420}
{"timestamp": "2024-02-27T10:41:59.691176+00:00", "bytes_downloaded": 131052374, "bytes_total": 345223208, "seconds_left": 6.824, "seconds_elapsed": 3.753}
{"timestamp": "2024-02-27T10:42:00.025189+00:00", "bytes_downloaded": 143190076, "bytes_total": 345223208, "seconds_left": 6.351, "seconds_elapsed": 4.087}
{"timestamp": "2024-02-27T10:42:00.358735+00:00", "bytes_downloaded": 155448192, "bytes_total": 345223208, "seconds_left": 5.896, "seconds_elapsed": 4.420}
{"timestamp": "2024-02-27T10:42:00.693529+00:00", "bytes_downloaded": 167494850, "bytes_total": 345223208, "seconds_left": 5.466, "seconds_elapsed": 4.755}
{"timestamp": "2024-02-27T10:42:01.026885+00:00", "bytes_downloaded": 179789000, "bytes_total": 345223208, "seconds_left": 5.043, "seconds_elapsed": 5.088}
{"timestamp": "2024-02-27T10:42:01.360483+00:00", "bytes_downloaded": 187536751, "bytes_total": 345223208, "seconds_left": 4.778, "seconds_elapsed": 5.422}
{"timestamp": "2024-02-27T10:42:01.693978+00:00", "bytes_downloaded": 199737576, "bytes_total": 345223208, "seconds_left": 4.389, "seconds_elapsed": 5.756}
{"timestamp": "2024-02-27T10:42:02.027113+00:00", "bytes_downloaded": 211879712, "bytes_total": 345223208, "seconds_left": 4.006, "seconds_elapsed": 6.089}
{"timestamp": "2024-02-27T10:42:02.360139+00:00", "bytes_downloaded": 224033698, "bytes_total": 345223208, "seconds_left": 3.626, "seconds_elapsed": 6.422}
{"timestamp": "2024-02-27T10:42:02.694407+00:00", "bytes_downloaded": 236212871, "bytes_total": 345223208, "seconds_left": 3.249, "seconds_elapsed": 6.756}
{"timestamp": "2024-02-27T10:42:03.027431+00:00", "bytes_downloaded": 248301091, "bytes_total": 345223208, "seconds_left": 2.878, "seconds_elapsed": 7.089}
{"timestamp": "2024-02-27T10:42:03.361001+00:00", "bytes_downloaded": 260428703, "bytes_total": 345223208, "seconds_left": 2.509, "seconds_elapsed": 7.423}
{"timestamp": "2024-02-27T10:42:03.694430+00:00", "bytes_downloaded": 272673595, "bytes_total": 345223208, "seconds_left": 2.139, "seconds_elapsed": 7.756}
{"timestamp": "2024-02-27T10:42:04.028557+00:00", "bytes_downloaded": 284878102, "bytes_total": 345223208, "seconds_left": 1.774, "seconds_elapsed": 8.090}
{"timestamp": "2024-02-27T10:42:04.361686+00:00", "bytes_downloaded": 296835374, "bytes_total": 345223208, "seconds_left": 1.418, "seconds_elapsed": 8.423}
{"timestamp": "2024-02-27T10:42:04.695532+00:00", "bytes_downloaded": 309005759, "bytes_total": 345223208, "seconds_left": 1.058, "seconds_elapsed": 8.757}
{"timestamp": "2024-02-27T10:42:05.028705+00:00", "bytes_downloaded": 321118015, "bytes_total": 345223208, "seconds_left": 0.702, "seconds_elapsed": 9.090}
{"timestamp": "2024-02-27T10:42:05.361956+00:00", "bytes_downloaded": 333264477, "bytes_total": 345223208, "seconds_left": 0.347, "seconds_elapsed": 9.424}
{"timestamp": "2024-02-27T10:42:05.711065+00:00", "step_num": 4, "total_steps": 5, "message": "Computing the snapshot message"}
{"timestamp": "2024-02-27T10:42:12.540752+00:00", "step_num": 5, "total_steps": 5, "message": "Verifying the snapshot signature…"}
{"timestamp": "2024-02-27T10:42:12.540913+00:00", "db_directory": "/mithril-client-0.5.17/db"}

Now the stdout output with Mithril client CLI version 0.7.0:

{"timestamp": "2024-02-27T10:43:06.357962+00:00", "db_directory": "/mithril-client-0.7.0/db"}

In addition, the --log-format-json option that enable JSON output is now written to stderr as well.

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