I've faced with same issue, this is how stderr and stdout looks for me:
StdOut: "\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\thello world
"
StdErr: "\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00fError: Exec command has already run
"
I've cheched docker source code and found answer here:
https://github.com/moby/moby/blob/8e610b2b55bfd1bfa9436ab110d311f5e8a74dcb/integration/internal/container/exec.go#L38
looks like this leading bytes used especially for marking stdout
and stderr
bytes.
And there is a library "github.com/docker/docker/pkg/stdcopy" which can split stdout
and stderr
from stream reader:
type ExecResult struct {
StdOut string
StdErr string
ExitCode int
}
func Exec(ctx context.Context, containerID string, command []string) (types.IDResponse, error) {
docker, err := client.NewEnvClient()
if err != nil {
return types.IDResponse{}, err
}
defer closer(docker)
config := types.ExecConfig{
AttachStderr: true,
AttachStdout: true,
Cmd: command,
}
return docker.ContainerExecCreate(ctx, containerID, config)
}
func InspectExecResp(ctx context.Context, id string) (ExecResult, error) {
var execResult ExecResult
docker, err := client.NewEnvClient()
if err != nil {
return execResult, err
}
defer closer(docker)
resp, err := docker.ContainerExecAttach(ctx, id, types.ExecConfig{})
if err != nil {
return execResult, err
}
defer resp.Close()
// read the output
var outBuf, errBuf bytes.Buffer
outputDone := make(chan error)
go func() {
// StdCopy demultiplexes the stream into two buffers
_, err = stdcopy.StdCopy(&outBuf, &errBuf, resp.Reader)
outputDone <- err
}()
select {
case err := <-outputDone:
if err != nil {
return execResult, err
}
break
case <-ctx.Done():
return execResult, ctx.Err()
}
stdout, err := ioutil.ReadAll(&outBuf)
if err != nil {
return execResult, err
}
stderr, err := ioutil.ReadAll(&errBuf)
if err != nil {
return execResult, err
}
res, err := docker.ContainerExecInspect(ctx, id)
if err != nil {
return execResult, err
}
execResult.ExitCode = res.ExitCode
execResult.StdOut = string(stdout)
execResult.StdErr = string(stderr)
return execResult, nil
}