When you are entering a number in the issue search, you likely want the
issue with the given ID (code internal concept: issue index).
As such, when a number is detected, the issue with the corresponding ID
will now be added to the results.
Fixes#4479
Co-authored-by: wxiaoguang <wxiaoguang@gmail.com>
This PR uses `db.ListOptions` instead of `Paginor` to make the code
simpler.
And it also fixed the performance problem when viewing /pulls or
/issues. Before the counting in fact will also do the search.
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Co-authored-by: Jason Song <i@wolfogre.com>
Co-authored-by: silverwind <me@silverwind.io>
just some refactoring bits towards replacing **util.OptionalBool** with
**optional.Option[bool]**
---------
Co-authored-by: KN4CK3R <admin@oldschoolhack.me>
It will fix#28268 .
<img width="1313" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/assets/9418365/cb1e07d5-7a12-4691-a054-8278ba255bfc">
<img width="1318" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/assets/9418365/4fd60820-97f1-4c2c-a233-d3671a5039e9">
## ⚠️ BREAKING ⚠️
But need to give up some features:
<img width="1312" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/assets/9418365/281c0d51-0e7d-473f-bbed-216e2f645610">
However, such abandonment may fix#28055 .
## Backgroud
When the user switches the dashboard context to an org, it means they
want to search issues in the repos that belong to the org. However, when
they switch to themselves, it means all repos they can access because
they may have created an issue in a public repo that they don't own.
<img width="286" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/assets/9418365/182dcd5b-1c20-4725-93af-96e8dfae5b97">
It's a confusing design. Think about this: What does "In your
repositories" mean when the user switches to an org? Repos belong to the
user or the org?
Whatever, it has been broken by #26012 and its following PRs. After the
PR, it searches for issues in repos that the dashboard context user owns
or has been explicitly granted access to, so it causes #28268.
## How to fix it
It's not really difficult to fix it. Just extend the repo scope to
search issues when the dashboard context user is the doer. Since the
user may create issues or be mentioned in any public repo, we can just
set `AllPublic` to true, which is already supported by indexers. The DB
condition will also support it in this PR.
But the real difficulty is how to count the search results grouped by
repos. It's something like "search issues with this keyword and those
filters, and return the total number and the top results. **Then, group
all of them by repo and return the counts of each group.**"
<img width="314" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/assets/9418365/5206eb20-f8f5-49b9-b45a-1be2fcf679f4">
Before #26012, it was being done in the DB, but it caused the results to
be incomplete (see the description of #26012).
And to keep this, #26012 implement it in an inefficient way, just count
the issues by repo one by one, so it cannot work when `AllPublic` is
true because it's almost impossible to do this for all public repos.
1bfcdeef4c/modules/indexer/issues/indexer.go (L318-L338)
## Give up unnecessary features
We may can resovle `TODO: use "group by" of the indexer engines to
implement it`, I'm sure it can be done with Elasticsearch, but IIRC,
Bleve and Meilisearch don't support "group by".
And the real question is, does it worth it? Why should we need to know
the counts grouped by repos?
Let me show you my search dashboard on gitea.com.
<img width="1304" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/assets/9418365/2bca2d46-6c71-4de1-94cb-0c9af27c62ff">
I never think the long repo list helps anything.
And if we agree to abandon it, things will be much easier. That is this
PR.
## TODO
I know it's important to filter by repos when searching issues. However,
it shouldn't be the way we have it now. It could be implemented like
this.
<img width="1316" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/assets/9418365/99ee5f21-cbb5-4dfe-914d-cb796cb79fbe">
The indexers support it well now, but it requires some frontend work,
which I'm not good at. So, I think someone could help do that in another
PR and merge this one to fix the bug first.
Or please block this PR and help to complete it.
Finally, "Switch dashboard context" is also a design that needs
improvement. In my opinion, it can be accomplished by adding filtering
conditions instead of "switching".
This PR has multiple parts, and I didn't split them because
it's not easy to test them separately since they are all about the
dashboard page for issues.
1. Support counting issues via indexer to fix#26361
2. Fix repo selection so it also fixes#26653
3. Keep keywords in filter links.
The first two are regressions of #26012.
After:
https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/assets/9418365/71dfea7e-d9e2-42b6-851a-cc081435c946
Thanks to @CaiCandong for helping with some tests.
Fix#24662.
Replace #24822 and #25708 (although it has been merged)
## Background
In the past, Gitea supported issue searching with a keyword and
conditions in a less efficient way. It worked by searching for issues
with the keyword and obtaining limited IDs (as it is heavy to get all)
on the indexer (bleve/elasticsearch/meilisearch), and then querying with
conditions on the database to find a subset of the found IDs. This is
why the results could be incomplete.
To solve this issue, we need to store all fields that could be used as
conditions in the indexer and support both keyword and additional
conditions when searching with the indexer.
## Major changes
- Redefine `IndexerData` to include all fields that could be used as
filter conditions.
- Refactor `Search(ctx context.Context, kw string, repoIDs []int64,
limit, start int, state string)` to `Search(ctx context.Context, options
*SearchOptions)`, so it supports more conditions now.
- Change the data type stored in `issueIndexerQueue`. Use
`IndexerMetadata` instead of `IndexerData` in case the data has been
updated while it is in the queue. This also reduces the storage size of
the queue.
- Enhance searching with Bleve/Elasticsearch/Meilisearch, make them
fully support `SearchOptions`. Also, update the data versions.
- Keep most logic of database indexer, but remove
`issues.SearchIssueIDsByKeyword` in `models` to avoid confusion where is
the entry point to search issues.
- Start a Meilisearch instance to test it in unit tests.
- Add unit tests with almost full coverage to test
Bleve/Elasticsearch/Meilisearch indexer.
---------
Co-authored-by: Lunny Xiao <xiaolunwen@gmail.com>
A couple of notes:
* Future changes should refactor arguments into a struct
* This filtering only is supported by meilisearch right now
* Issue index number is bumped which will cause a re-index
Refactor `modules/indexer` to make it more maintainable. And it can be
easier to support more features. I'm trying to solve some of issue
searching, this is a precursor to making functional changes.
Current supported engines and the index versions:
| engines | issues | code |
| - | - | - |
| db | Just a wrapper for database queries, doesn't need version | - |
| bleve | The version of index is **2** | The version of index is **6**
|
| elasticsearch | The old index has no version, will be treated as
version **0** in this PR | The version of index is **1** |
| meilisearch | The old index has no version, will be treated as version
**0** in this PR | - |
## Changes
### Split
Splited it into mutiple packages
```text
indexer
├── internal
│ ├── bleve
│ ├── db
│ ├── elasticsearch
│ └── meilisearch
├── code
│ ├── bleve
│ ├── elasticsearch
│ └── internal
└── issues
├── bleve
├── db
├── elasticsearch
├── internal
└── meilisearch
```
- `indexer/interanal`: Internal shared package for indexer.
- `indexer/interanal/[engine]`: Internal shared package for each engine
(bleve/db/elasticsearch/meilisearch).
- `indexer/code`: Implementations for code indexer.
- `indexer/code/internal`: Internal shared package for code indexer.
- `indexer/code/[engine]`: Implementation via each engine for code
indexer.
- `indexer/issues`: Implementations for issues indexer.
### Deduplication
- Combine `Init/Ping/Close` for code indexer and issues indexer.
- ~Combine `issues.indexerHolder` and `code.wrappedIndexer` to
`internal.IndexHolder`.~ Remove it, use dummy indexer instead when the
indexer is not ready.
- Duplicate two copies of creating ES clients.
- Duplicate two copies of `indexerID()`.
### Enhancement
- [x] Support index version for elasticsearch issues indexer, the old
index without version will be treated as version 0.
- [x] Fix spell of `elastic_search/ElasticSearch`, it should be
`Elasticsearch`.
- [x] Improve versioning of ES index. We don't need `Aliases`:
- Gitea does't need aliases for "Zero Downtime" because it never delete
old indexes.
- The old code of issues indexer uses the orignal name to create issue
index, so it's tricky to convert it to an alias.
- [x] Support index version for meilisearch issues indexer, the old
index without version will be treated as version 0.
- [x] Do "ping" only when `Ping` has been called, don't ping
periodically and cache the status.
- [x] Support the context parameter whenever possible.
- [x] Fix outdated example config.
- [x] Give up the requeue logic of issues indexer: When indexing fails,
call Ping to check if it was caused by the engine being unavailable, and
only requeue the task if the engine is unavailable.
- It is fragile and tricky, could cause data losing (It did happen when
I was doing some tests for this PR). And it works for ES only.
- Just always requeue the failed task, if it caused by bad data, it's a
bug of Gitea which should be fixed.
---------
Co-authored-by: Giteabot <teabot@gitea.io>
Before there was a "graceful function": RunWithShutdownFns, it's mainly
for some modules which doesn't support context.
The old queue system doesn't work well with context, so the old queues
need it.
After the queue refactoring, the new queue works with context well, so,
use Golang context as much as possible, the `RunWithShutdownFns` could
be removed (replaced by RunWithCancel for context cancel mechanism), the
related code could be simplified.
This PR also fixes some legacy queue-init problems, eg:
* typo : archiver: "unable to create codes indexer queue" => "unable to
create repo-archive queue"
* no nil check for failed queues, which causes unfriendly panic
After this PR, many goroutines could have better display name:
This PR
- [x] Move some functions from `issues.go` to `issue_stats.go` and
`issue_label.go`
- [x] Remove duplicated issue options `UserIssueStatsOption` to keep
only one `IssuesOptions`
# ⚠️ Breaking
Many deprecated queue config options are removed (actually, they should
have been removed in 1.18/1.19).
If you see the fatal message when starting Gitea: "Please update your
app.ini to remove deprecated config options", please follow the error
messages to remove these options from your app.ini.
Example:
```
2023/05/06 19:39:22 [E] Removed queue option: `[indexer].ISSUE_INDEXER_QUEUE_TYPE`. Use new options in `[queue.issue_indexer]`
2023/05/06 19:39:22 [E] Removed queue option: `[indexer].UPDATE_BUFFER_LEN`. Use new options in `[queue.issue_indexer]`
2023/05/06 19:39:22 [F] Please update your app.ini to remove deprecated config options
```
Many options in `[queue]` are are dropped, including:
`WRAP_IF_NECESSARY`, `MAX_ATTEMPTS`, `TIMEOUT`, `WORKERS`,
`BLOCK_TIMEOUT`, `BOOST_TIMEOUT`, `BOOST_WORKERS`, they can be removed
from app.ini.
# The problem
The old queue package has some legacy problems:
* complexity: I doubt few people could tell how it works.
* maintainability: Too many channels and mutex/cond are mixed together,
too many different structs/interfaces depends each other.
* stability: due to the complexity & maintainability, sometimes there
are strange bugs and difficult to debug, and some code doesn't have test
(indeed some code is difficult to test because a lot of things are mixed
together).
* general applicability: although it is called "queue", its behavior is
not a well-known queue.
* scalability: it doesn't seem easy to make it work with a cluster
without breaking its behaviors.
It came from some very old code to "avoid breaking", however, its
technical debt is too heavy now. It's a good time to introduce a better
"queue" package.
# The new queue package
It keeps using old config and concept as much as possible.
* It only contains two major kinds of concepts:
* The "base queue": channel, levelqueue, redis
* They have the same abstraction, the same interface, and they are
tested by the same testing code.
* The "WokerPoolQueue", it uses the "base queue" to provide "worker
pool" function, calls the "handler" to process the data in the base
queue.
* The new code doesn't do "PushBack"
* Think about a queue with many workers, the "PushBack" can't guarantee
the order for re-queued unhandled items, so in new code it just does
"normal push"
* The new code doesn't do "pause/resume"
* The "pause/resume" was designed to handle some handler's failure: eg:
document indexer (elasticsearch) is down
* If a queue is paused for long time, either the producers blocks or the
new items are dropped.
* The new code doesn't do such "pause/resume" trick, it's not a common
queue's behavior and it doesn't help much.
* If there are unhandled items, the "push" function just blocks for a
few seconds and then re-queue them and retry.
* The new code doesn't do "worker booster"
* Gitea's queue's handlers are light functions, the cost is only the
go-routine, so it doesn't make sense to "boost" them.
* The new code only use "max worker number" to limit the concurrent
workers.
* The new "Push" never blocks forever
* Instead of creating more and more blocking goroutines, return an error
is more friendly to the server and to the end user.
There are more details in code comments: eg: the "Flush" problem, the
strange "code.index" hanging problem, the "immediate" queue problem.
Almost ready for review.
TODO:
* [x] add some necessary comments during review
* [x] add some more tests if necessary
* [x] update documents and config options
* [x] test max worker / active worker
* [x] re-run the CI tasks to see whether any test is flaky
* [x] improve the `handleOldLengthConfiguration` to provide more
friendly messages
* [x] fine tune default config values (eg: length?)
## Code coverage:
Change all license headers to comply with REUSE specification.
Fix#16132
Co-authored-by: flynnnnnnnnnn <flynnnnnnnnnn@github>
Co-authored-by: John Olheiser <john.olheiser@gmail.com>
This PR adds a context parameter to a bunch of methods. Some helper
`xxxCtx()` methods got replaced with the normal name now.
Co-authored-by: delvh <dev.lh@web.de>
Co-authored-by: Lunny Xiao <xiaolunwen@gmail.com>
* Move access and repo permission to models/perm/access
* fix test
* fix git test
* Move functions sequence
* Some improvements per @KN4CK3R and @delvh
* Move issues related code to models/issues
* Move some issues related sub package
* Merge
* Fix test
* Fix test
* Fix test
* Fix test
* Rename some files
* Move some repository related code into sub package
* Move more repository functions out of models
* Fix lint
* Some performance optimization for webhooks and others
* some refactors
* Fix lint
* Fix
* Update modules/repository/delete.go
Co-authored-by: delvh <dev.lh@web.de>
* Fix test
* Merge
* Fix test
* Fix test
* Fix test
* Fix test
Co-authored-by: delvh <dev.lh@web.de>
Within doArchive there is a service goroutine that performs the
archiving function. This goroutine reports its error using a `chan
error` called `done`. Prior to this PR this channel had 0 capacity
meaning that the goroutine would block until the `done` channel was
cleared - however there are a couple of ways in which this channel might
not be read.
The simplest solution is to add a single space of capacity to the
goroutine which will mean that the goroutine will always complete and
even if the `done` channel is not read it will be simply garbage
collected away.
(The PR also contains two other places when setting up the indexers
which do not leak but where the blocking of the sending goroutine is
also unnecessary and so we should just add a small amount of capacity
and let the sending goroutine complete as soon as it can.)
Signed-off-by: Andrew Thornton <art27@cantab.net>
Co-authored-by: 6543 <6543@obermui.de>
Continues on from #19202.
Following the addition of pprof labels we can now more easily understand the relationship between a goroutine and the requests that spawn them.
This PR takes advantage of the labels and adds a few others, then provides a mechanism for the monitoring page to query the pprof goroutine profile.
The binary profile that results from this profile is immediately piped in to the google library for parsing this and then stack traces are formed for the goroutines.
If the goroutine is within a context or has been created from a goroutine within a process context it will acquire the process description labels for that process.
The goroutines are mapped with there associate pids and any that do not have an associated pid are placed in a group at the bottom as unbound.
In this way we should be able to more easily examine goroutines that have been stuck.
A manager command `gitea manager processes` is also provided that can export the processes (with or without stacktraces) to the command line.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Thornton <art27@cantab.net>
* Start adding mechanism to return unhandled data
Signed-off-by: Andrew Thornton <art27@cantab.net>
* Create pushback interface
Signed-off-by: Andrew Thornton <art27@cantab.net>
* Add Pausable interface to WorkerPool and Manager
Signed-off-by: Andrew Thornton <art27@cantab.net>
* Implement Pausable and PushBack for the bytefifos
Signed-off-by: Andrew Thornton <art27@cantab.net>
* Implement Pausable and Pushback for ChannelQueues and ChannelUniqueQueues
Signed-off-by: Andrew Thornton <art27@cantab.net>
* Wire in UI for pausing
Signed-off-by: Andrew Thornton <art27@cantab.net>
* add testcases and fix a few issues
Signed-off-by: Andrew Thornton <art27@cantab.net>
* fix build
Signed-off-by: Andrew Thornton <art27@cantab.net>
* prevent "race" in the test
Signed-off-by: Andrew Thornton <art27@cantab.net>
* fix jsoniter mismerge
Signed-off-by: Andrew Thornton <art27@cantab.net>
* fix conflicts
Signed-off-by: Andrew Thornton <art27@cantab.net>
* fix format
Signed-off-by: Andrew Thornton <art27@cantab.net>
* Add warnings for no worker configurations and prevent data-loss with redis/levelqueue
Signed-off-by: Andrew Thornton <art27@cantab.net>
* Use StopTimer
Signed-off-by: Andrew Thornton <art27@cantab.net>
Co-authored-by: Lauris BH <lauris@nix.lv>
Co-authored-by: 6543 <6543@obermui.de>
Co-authored-by: techknowlogick <techknowlogick@gitea.io>
Co-authored-by: wxiaoguang <wxiaoguang@gmail.com>
* Some refactors related repository model
* Move more methods out of repository
* Move repository into models/repo
* Fix test
* Fix test
* some improvements
* Remove unnecessary function
* move shutdownfns, terminatefns and hammerfns out of separate goroutines
Coalesce the shutdownfns etc into a list of functions that get run at shutdown
rather then have them run at goroutines blocked on selects.
This may help reduce the background select/poll load in certain
configurations.
* The LevelDB queues can actually wait on empty instead of polling
Slight refactor to cause leveldb queues to wait on empty instead of polling.
* Shutdown the shadow level queue once it is empty
* Remove bytefifo additional goroutine for readToChan as it can just be run in run
* Remove additional removeWorkers goroutine for workers
* Simplify the AtShutdown and AtTerminate functions and add Channel Flusher
* Add shutdown flusher to CUQ
* move persistable channel shutdown stuff to Shutdown Fn
* Ensure that UPCQ has the correct config
* handle shutdown during the flushing
* reduce risk of race between zeroBoost and addWorkers
* prevent double shutdown
Signed-off-by: Andrew Thornton <art27@cantab.net>
* Change graceful to use a singleton obtained through GetManager instead of a global.
* Graceful: Make TestPullRequests shutdownable
* Graceful: Make the cron tasks graceful
* Graceful: AddTestPullRequest run in graceful ctx
* Graceful: SyncMirrors shutdown
* Graceful: SetDefaultContext for Xorm to be HammerContext
* Avoid starting graceful for migrate commands and checkout
* Graceful: DeliverHooks now can be shutdown
* Fix multiple syncing errors in modules/sync/UniqueQueue & Make UniqueQueue closable
* Begin the process of making the repo indexer shutdown gracefully
* Graceful Shutdown for windows and others
Restructures modules/graceful, adding shutdown for windows, removing and
replacing the old minwinsvc code.
Creates a new waitGroup - terminate which allows for goroutines to
finish up after the shutdown of the servers.
Shutdown and terminate hooks are added for goroutines.
* Remove unused functions - these can be added in a different PR
* Add startup timeout functionality
* Document STARTUP_TIMEOUT
* in progress changes for #7405, added ability to add cross-repo dependencies
* removed unused repolink var
* fixed query that was breaking ci tests; fixed check in issue dependency add so that the id of the issue and dependency is checked rather than the indexes
* reverted removal of string in local files becasue these are done via crowdin, not updated manually
* removed 'Select("issue.*")' from getBlockedByDependencies and getBlockingDependencies based on comments in PR review
* changed getBlockedByDependencies and getBlockingDependencies to use a more xorm-like query, also updated the sidebar as a result
* simplified the getBlockingDependencies and getBlockedByDependencies methods; changed the sidebar to show the dependencies in a different format where you can see the name of the repository
* made some changes to the issue view in the dependencies (issue name on top, repo full name on separate line). Change view of issue in the dependency search results (also showing the full repo name on separate line)
* replace call to FindUserAccessibleRepoIDs with SearchRepositoryByName. The former was hardcoded to use isPrivate = false on the repo search, but this code needed it to be true. The SearchRepositoryByName method is used more in the code including on the user's dashboard
* some more tweaks to the layout of the issues when showing dependencies and in the search box when you add new dependencies
* added Name to the RepositoryMeta struct
* updated swagger doc
* fixed total count for link header on SearchIssues
* fixed indentation
* fixed aligment of remove icon on dependencies in issue sidebar
* removed unnecessary nil check (unnecessary because issue.loadRepo is called prior to this block)
* reverting .css change, somehow missed or forgot that less is used
* updated less file and generated css; updated sidebar template with styles to line up delete and issue index
* added ordering to the blocked by/depends on queries
* fixed sorting in issue dependency search and the depends on/blocks views to show issues from the current repo first, then by created date descending; added a "all cross repository dependencies" setting to allow this feature to be turned off, if turned off, the issue dependency search will work the way it did before (restricted to the current repository)
* re-applied my swagger changes after merge
* fixed split string condition in issue search
* changed ALLOW_CROSS_REPOSITORY_DEPENDENCIES description to sound more global than just the issue dependency search; returning 400 in the cross repo issue search api method if not enabled; fixed bug where the issue count did not respect the state parameter
* when adding a dependency to an issue, added a check to make sure the issue and dependency are in the same repo if cross repo dependencies is not enabled
* updated sortIssuesSession call in PullRequests, another commit moved this method from pull.go to pull_list.go so I had to re-apply my change here
* fixed incorrect setting of user id parameter in search repos call
* Prevent deadlock in indexer initialisation during graceful restart
* Move from gracehttp to our own service to add graceful ssh
* Add timeout for start of indexers and make hammer time configurable
* Fix issue with re-initialization in indexer during tests
* move the code to detect use of closed to graceful
* Handle logs gracefully - add a pid suffix just before restart
* Move to using a cond and a holder for indexers
* use time.Since
* Add some comments and attribution
* update modules.txt
* Use zero to disable timeout
* Move RestartProcess to its own file
* Add cleanup routine
* Panic don't fatal on create new logger
Fixes#5854
Signed-off-by: Andrew Thornton <art27@cantab.net>
* partial broken
* Update the logging infrastrcture
Signed-off-by: Andrew Thornton <art27@cantab.net>
* Reset the skip levels for Fatal and Error
Signed-off-by: Andrew Thornton <art27@cantab.net>
* broken ncsa
* More log.Error fixes
Signed-off-by: Andrew Thornton <art27@cantab.net>
* Remove nal
* set log-levels to lowercase
* Make console_test test all levels
* switch to lowercased levels
* OK now working
* Fix vetting issues
* Fix lint
* Fix tests
* change default logging to match current gitea
* Improve log testing
Signed-off-by: Andrew Thornton <art27@cantab.net>
* reset error skip levels to 0
* Update documentation and access logger configuration
* Redirect the router log back to gitea if redirect macaron log but also allow setting the log level - i.e. TRACE
* Fix broken level caching
* Refactor the router log
* Add Router logger
* Add colorizing options
* Adjust router colors
* Only create logger if they will be used
* update app.ini.sample
* rename Attribute ColorAttribute
* Change from white to green for function
* Set fatal/error levels
* Restore initial trace logger
* Fix Trace arguments in modules/auth/auth.go
* Properly handle XORMLogger
* Improve admin/config page
* fix fmt
* Add auto-compression of old logs
* Update error log levels
* Remove the unnecessary skip argument from Error, Fatal and Critical
* Add stacktrace support
* Fix tests
* Remove x/sync from vendors?
* Add stderr option to console logger
* Use filepath.ToSlash to protect against Windows in tests
* Remove prefixed underscores from names in colors.go
* Remove not implemented database logger
This was removed from Gogs on 4 Mar 2016 but left in the configuration
since then.
* Ensure that log paths are relative to ROOT_PATH
* use path.Join
* rename jsonConfig to logConfig
* Rename "config" to "jsonConfig" to make it clearer
* Requested changes
* Requested changes: XormLogger
* Try to color the windows terminal
If successful default to colorizing the console logs
* fixup
* Colorize initially too
* update vendor
* Colorize logs on default and remove if this is not a colorizing logger
* Fix documentation
* fix test
* Use go-isatty to detect if on windows we are on msys or cygwin
* Fix spelling mistake
* Add missing vendors
* More changes
* Rationalise the ANSI writer protection
* Adjust colors on advice from @0x5c
* Make Flags a comma separated list
* Move to use the windows constant for ENABLE_VIRTUAL_TERMINAL_PROCESSING
* Ensure matching is done on the non-colored message - to simpify EXPRESSION
