From 7c0b566e639ce7188ab47db5cd4c5269263a24d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Trent Mick <trentm@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 22:18:29 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] [issue #210] Export `bunyan.nameFromLevel` and
 `bunyan.levelFromName`

---
 CHANGES.md    |  3 +++
 README.md     | 17 +++++++----------
 lib/bunyan.js |  6 ++++++
 3 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index fe05769..66c034e 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ Known issues:
 
 ## bunyan 1.2.4 (not yet released)
 
+- [issue #210] Export `bunyan.nameFromLevel` and `bunyan.levelFromName`. It can
+  be a pain for custom streams to have to reproduce that.
+
 - [issue #100] Gracefully handle the case of an unbound
   `Logger.{info,debug,...}` being used for logging, e.g.:
 
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0b7796b..292baea 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -995,17 +995,14 @@ For some, the raw log records might not be desired. To have a rendered log line
 you'll want to add your own stream, starting with something like this:
 
 ```javascript
+var bunyan = require('./lib/bunyan');
+
 function MyRawStream() {}
 MyRawStream.prototype.write = function (rec) {
-    var nameFromLevel = {
-        TRACE: 'TRACE'
-        DEBUG: 'DEBUG',
-        INFO: 'INFO',
-        WARN: 'WARN',
-        ERROR: 'ERROR',
-        FATAL: 'FATAL'
-    };
-    console.log('[%s] %s: %s', rec.time, nameFromLevel[rec.level], rec.msg);
+    console.log('[%s] %s: %s',
+        rec.time.toISOString(),
+        bunyan.nameFromLevel[rec.level],
+        rec.msg);
 }
 
 var log = bunyan.createLogger({
@@ -1015,7 +1012,7 @@ var log = bunyan.createLogger({
             level: 'info',
             stream: new MyRawStream(),
             type: 'raw'
-        },
+        }
     ]
 });
 
diff --git a/lib/bunyan.js b/lib/bunyan.js
index 2c997ae..3f0bf5c 100644
--- a/lib/bunyan.js
+++ b/lib/bunyan.js
@@ -197,6 +197,10 @@ var levelFromName = {
     'error': ERROR,
     'fatal': FATAL
 };
+var nameFromLevel = {};
+Object.keys(levelFromName).forEach(function (name) {
+    nameFromLevel[levelFromName[name]] = name;
+});
 
 // Dtrace probes.
 var dtp = undefined;
@@ -1362,6 +1366,8 @@ module.exports.WARN = WARN;
 module.exports.ERROR = ERROR;
 module.exports.FATAL = FATAL;
 module.exports.resolveLevel = resolveLevel;
+module.exports.levelFromName = levelFromName;
+module.exports.nameFromLevel = nameFromLevel;
 
 module.exports.VERSION = VERSION;
 module.exports.LOG_VERSION = LOG_VERSION;