feature request : interface around time.Now

[ran-berenfeld]

we use some clock testing packages like
https://github.com/jonboulle/clockwork
that relies on the tested code not calling directly time.Now()
can we have some interface in the encoder configuration ?

for example TimeSource interface that implemented the time.Now(), and in the zap encoder configuration an option to put your own interface to supply time ?

[prashantv]

This may not be exactly what you're looking for, but perhaps it'll solve your problem: There is a testing package in zap which creates a logger that captures logs in-memory: observer.

core, logs := observer.New(zap.ErrorLevel)
logger := zap.New(core)

// pass in logger to code you'r testing

You can use logs.All() to get all logs, with timestamps, or use AllUntimed() to get all logs without timestamps.