From 8956e081adbe61d22bbd2d7c26962d58826152c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stanley Ng <stanleyhlng@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 22:04:27 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] updated README.md to include options.output

---
 README.md | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index fc411c6..588c488 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -68,6 +68,11 @@ Default value: `false`
 If true, protractor will not give colored output.
 If false, protractor will give colored output, as it does by default.
 
+#### options.output
+Type: `String`
+
+The file that the task should output the results to.
+
 #### options.debug
 Type: `Boolean`
 Default value: `false`

From 61d55aafcf2ad736231b3f666d20ee734d9aa50e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stanley Ng <stanleyhlng@yahoo.com.hk>
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 23:47:38 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] implement the logic to write the reuslt to a file if
 options.output is defined

---
 README.md                  | 11 ++++++-----
 package.json               |  4 +++-
 tasks/protractor_runner.js | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 3 files changed, 39 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 588c488..704b336 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -68,11 +68,6 @@ Default value: `false`
 If true, protractor will not give colored output.
 If false, protractor will give colored output, as it does by default.
 
-#### options.output
-Type: `String`
-
-The file that the task should output the results to.
-
 #### options.debug
 Type: `Boolean`
 Default value: `false`
@@ -107,6 +102,12 @@ Supported arguments are below.
 * cucumberOpts `object`: Cucumber framework options object to be passed to the test, e.g. require, tags and format
 * mochaOpts `object`: Mocha test framework options object to be passed
 
+#### options.output
+Type: `String`
+Default value: `false`
+
+The file that the task should output the results to.
+
 ## Tests
 
 Run `npm install` to install dependencies.
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 4393f4e..bd8972d 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -35,7 +35,9 @@
     "grunt-contrib-jshint": "~0.6.0",
     "grunt-contrib-clean": "~0.4.0",
     "grunt-contrib-nodeunit": "~0.2.0",
-    "grunt": "~0.4.1"
+    "grunt": "~0.4.1",
+    "split": "~0.3.0",
+    "through2": "~0.5.1"
   },
   "peerDependencies": {
     "grunt": "~0.4.1"
diff --git a/tasks/protractor_runner.js b/tasks/protractor_runner.js
index 4043b56..7a86e9c 100644
--- a/tasks/protractor_runner.js
+++ b/tasks/protractor_runner.js
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@
 
 var util = require('util');
 var path = require('path');
+var fs = require('fs');
+var split = require('split');
+var through2 = require('through2');
 
 module.exports = function(grunt) {
 
@@ -28,7 +31,8 @@ module.exports = function(grunt) {
       keepAlive: false,
       noColor: false,
       debug: false,
-      args: {}
+      args: {},
+      output: false
     });
 
     // configFile is a special property which need not to be in options{} object.
@@ -102,11 +106,11 @@ module.exports = function(grunt) {
 
     // Spawn protractor command
     var done = this.async();
-    grunt.util.spawn({
+    var child = grunt.util.spawn({
         cmd: 'node',
         args: args,
         opts: {
-          stdio:'inherit'
+          stdio:'pipe'
         }
       },
       function(error, result, code) {
@@ -128,6 +132,29 @@ module.exports = function(grunt) {
         }
       }
     );
+    child.stdout.pipe(process.stdout);
+    child.stderr.pipe(process.stderr);
+
+    // Write the result in the output file
+    if (!grunt.util._.isUndefined(opts.output) && opts.output !== false) {
+
+      grunt.verbose.writeln("Write the result to: " + opts.output);
+
+      grunt.file.mkdir(path.dirname(opts.output));
+
+      child.stdout
+        .pipe(split())
+        .pipe(through2(function (chunk, encoding, callback) {
+          if ((/^Using the selenium server at/).test(chunk.toString())) {
+            // skip
+          }
+          else {
+            this.push(chunk + '\n');
+          }  
+          callback();
+        }))
+        .pipe(fs.createWriteStream(opts.output));
+    }
   });
 
 };