From 0b87f5516a4d6f0fc82c84ea3b3fa47ec6605a31 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tiara Rodney <tiara.rodney@byteb4rb1e.me>
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:42:52 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix(formatter,manager): add Formatter.format(), fix
 Placeholder access

Add format() method to Formatter class to delegate to the style's
format method. Change Placeholder.loggers to public so Manager can
access it for hierarchy fixup.
---
 src/formatter.ts | 14 ++++++++++++++
 src/manager.ts   |  2 +-
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/formatter.ts b/src/formatter.ts
index 7e0197c..cf1d6e6 100644
--- a/src/formatter.ts
+++ b/src/formatter.ts
@@ -174,6 +174,20 @@ export class Formatter {
      * formatters, for example if you want all logging times to be shown in GMT,
      * set the 'converter' attribute in the Formatter class.
      */
+    /**
+     * Format the specified record as text.
+     *
+     * The record's attribute dictionary is used as the operand to a string
+     * formatting operation which yields the returned string. Before the
+     * formatting operation, a couple of preparatory steps are carried out.
+     * The message attribute of the record is computed using LogRecord.getMessage().
+     * If the formatting string uses the time, formatTime() is called to format
+     * the event time.
+     */
+    format(record: LogRecord): string {
+        return this.style.format(record);
+    }
+
     formatTime(record: LogRecord, datefmt?: any): string {
 
         //TODO: record.created
diff --git a/src/manager.ts b/src/manager.ts
index 32bc8c5..1d6828d 100644
--- a/src/manager.ts
+++ b/src/manager.ts
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ var loggerClass = Logger;
  * Placeholder instance
  */
 class Placeholder {
-    protected loggers: Logger[] = [];
+    public loggers: Logger[] = [];
 
     /**
      * initialize with the specified logger being a child of this placeholder.