From c7e59ad238c40159957a33557264406f2e9a1695 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jarrett Cruger <jcrugzz@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 13:08:08 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] [fix] properly log message when using `raw` mode

---
 lib/winston/common.js | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/winston/common.js b/lib/winston/common.js
index 3ae52c057..2d5f81775 100644
--- a/lib/winston/common.js
+++ b/lib/winston/common.js
@@ -145,7 +145,16 @@ exports.log = function (options) {
     }
     output         = exports.clone(meta) || {};
     output.level   = options.level;
-    output.message = options.message.stripColors;
+    //
+    // Remark (jcrugzz): This used to be output.message = options.message.stripColors.
+    // I do not know why this is, it does not make sense but im handling that
+    // case here as well as handling the case that does make sense which is to
+    // make the `output.message = options.message`
+    //
+    output.message = options.message.stripColors
+      ? options.message.stripColors
+      : options.message;
+
     return JSON.stringify(output);
   }
 

From 4450bf9505555fc0f0a3996dec47d735b3e96405 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jarrett Cruger <jcrugzz@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 13:08:24 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] [test] test that raw mode works as expected

---
 test/transports/console-test.js | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/test/transports/console-test.js b/test/transports/console-test.js
index 107c9ca16..68425739a 100644
--- a/test/transports/console-test.js
+++ b/test/transports/console-test.js
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ var npmTransport = new (winston.transports.Console)(),
     syslogTransport = new (winston.transports.Console)({ levels: winston.config.syslog.levels }),
     alignTransport = new (winston.transports.Console)({ showLevel: true, align: true }),
     defaultTransport = new (winston.transports.Console)(),
+    rawTransport = new (winston.transports.Console)({ level: 'verbose', raw: true }),
     debugStdoutTransport = new (winston.transports.Console)({ debugStdout: true }),
     stderrLevelsTransport = new (winston.transports.Console)({ stderrLevels: ['info', 'warn'] }),
     customLevels = {
@@ -34,6 +35,7 @@ var npmTransport = new (winston.transports.Console)(),
 
 vows.describe('winston/transports/console').addBatch({
   "An instance of the Console Transport": {
+
     "with showLevel on": {
       topic : function() {
         npmTransport.showLevel = true;
@@ -110,6 +112,19 @@ vows.describe('winston/transports/console').addBatch({
       assert.equal(line, 'info: \n');
     }
   }
+}).addBatch({
+  'An instance of a raw Console transport': {
+    'logging to stdout': {
+      topic: function () {
+        stdMocks.use();
+        rawTransport.log('verbose', 'hello there');
+      }, 'should output json with message property': function () {
+        stdMocks.restore();
+        var output = stdMocks.flush();
+        assert.ok(output.stdout[0].indexOf('"message":"hello there"') > -1);
+      }
+    }
+  }
 }).addBatch({
   "An instance of the Console Transport with no options": {
     "should set stderrLevels to 'error' and 'debug' by default": helpers.assertStderrLevels(