How to retrieve WB extensions Log Output as a String in ACT console?

Ayush Kumar

How to retrieve WB extensions Log Output as a String in ACT console?

Ayush Kumar

From David Roche's TIG Post:

import clr
clr.AddReference("Ansys.ACT.Core")
from Ansys.ACT.Core.Messages import * 
print Log.Stream.ToString()

James Derrick

Hi Ayush, can you add a bit more context to your question? It's not clear what sort of log output you're looking for here.

Ayush Kumar

Hi James (@James Derrick) , Thanks for the feedback, added some context, I hope this clarifies the question!

James Derrick

That's great Ayush, thanks!

Josef Behal

Hi all,

Is it possible to retrieve the count of error/warning messages in the log?

Let's say I use ExtAPI.Log.WriteError(...) several times in the code and I would like to know, how many times these error messages were written to the log.

Ayush Kumar

@Josef Behal Log.Stream.ToString() is a string, you can save that in a variable and search for number of occurrences of a particular string. For example:

Josef Behal

Yes, this is obvious. In this case, I need to write every time something like ExtAPI.Log.WriteError(Error, error message....) or somehow wrap this function.

Do I understand correctly that WriteError function just formats the text and does not add any object properties, for example as mechanical error message does?

Ayush Kumar

@Josef Behal, that is correct. WriteError expects only a string argument. That argument is rendered as an Error message in ACT Log in red.

Josef Behal

OK, thank you.