Support named log groups

[umarcor]

Describe the enhancement

Currently, it is possible to wrap logs in collapsible groups through ::group:: and ::endgroup::. The former accepts an optional string, which is used as the title of the collapsible header. However, the endgroup does not support any additional argument. As a result, it is not possible to uniquely identify the matching start and end statements, thus, preventing nesting, hierarchical view, etc.

The implementation of this feature in other services allows using a keyword to match open and close statements.

Code Snippet

echo "::group::Title"
echo "Foo"
echo "::endgroup::"

Possible enhancement:

echo "::group::mykey::Title"
echo "Foo"
echo "::endgroup::mykey::"

Additional information

Since composite actions can include other actions (up to 10 levels of hierarchy), log groups are likely to conflict. Keywords might be implicitly used for enhancing the current UI.

Refs: #802 #1272 #1279 #1404

/cc @thboop @andreineculau @pbartolome

[ethomson]

Thanks for the suggestion - having a hierarchy here seems like it might be useful, indeed. However, there are a lot of considerations around page rendering and performance that we would need to think through. I'm going to put this on the backlog, but this isn't something that we have planned to work on in the very near future. Thanks again!

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[Piedone]

Still interesting.