Add an "alert" log level.

This has the same urgency as "info", but also signals to interactive tools that
the user's attention should be drawn to the output, even if they're not looking
at the event log. In the console app, this means the message appears in the
status bar with a timeout.

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mitmproxy/log.py b/mitmproxy/log.py
index c2456cf1..a2e7ea99 100644
--- a/mitmproxy/log.py
+++ b/mitmproxy/log.py
@@ -24,6 +24,15 @@ class Log:
         """
         self(txt, "info")
 
+    def alert(self, txt):
+        """
+            Log with level alert. Alerts have the same urgency as info, but
+            signals to interctive tools that the user's attention should be
+            drawn to the output even if they're not currently looking at the
+            event log.
+        """
+        self(txt, "alert")
+
     def warn(self, txt):
         """
             Log with level warn.
@@ -41,4 +50,4 @@ class Log:
 
 
 def log_tier(level):
-    return dict(error=0, warn=1, info=2, debug=3).get(level)
+    return dict(error=0, warn=1, info=2, alert=2, debug=3).get(level)