GTAW-Log-Parser

What it does (upstream)

Core capabilities inherited from AdvGTAW/GTAW-Log-Parser and preserved in this fork:

• Parses GTA World chatlog.storage JSON into readable text (IC, OOC, /me, /do, /pm, radio, phone, dispatch …)
• ParserMini, minimal WinForms one-shot: drop a .storage, get text out
• GTAW Assistant: full WPF app with persistent settings, MahApps Metro theming, accent colors, light / dark / sync-with-system
• Auto-detects the GTA V process (Legacy + Enhanced) and locates the newest .storage on disk via ChatLogScanner
• Background backup controller: periodic dumps of the parsed log to a chosen folder
• Filter window with regex criteria, message-type toggles, and quick filtering
• Localization layer (multiple UI languages) via LocalizationController
• Update-check against GitHub releases

Modernization (.NET 8)

• Both apps migrated from .NET Framework 4.8 to .NET 8 (net8.0-windows)
• SDK-style csproj (~300 lines of XML removed)
• New Shared/ class library: ChatLogParser, ChatLogScanner, LocalizationController
• MahApps.Metro 1.6.5 → 2.4.10 (theming API rewrite, ThemeManager.Current)
• Octokit 0.48 → 14, MahApps.IconPacks 3.7 → 5.0, Extended.Wpf.Toolkit 4.0 → 4.7
• Costura.Fody / Resource.Embedder dropped in favour of PublishSingleFile
• BackupController: Thread + bool flags + Thread.Sleep polling → Task + CancellationToken + Task.Delay (kills the 10s shutdown latency)
• Regex-over-JSON parser replaced with Utf8JsonReader streaming
• IWshRuntimeLibrary COM ref replaced with a managed ShellLink P/Invoke wrapper (unblocks CLI builds)
• Nullable enabled across all projects; 45 nullable warnings fixed

New features

• Live Tail window: FileSystemWatcher on .storage with 200 ms debounce; on every change, re-parses, diffs against the previous full log, appends only new lines, auto-scrolls. Optional timestamp strip + Clear button.
• In-app auto-updater: uses Octokit to locate the matching framework-dependent asset, downloads it next to the running exe, then spawns a one-liner that waits 2 s, swaps over the running exe, and restarts. Falls back to opening the releases page on failure.

Observability

• Serilog rolling-file sink at %LocalAppData%\GTAW-Log-Parser\logs\, retained 7 days
• 14 silent Debug.WriteLine sites replaced with structured Log.Error / Log.Information
• Sentry.Serilog sink wired up but gated by GTAW_SENTRY_DSN env var, off by default (privacy by default)
• Centralised in Shared/Logging.cs; both apps call Logging.Initialize() / Logging.Shutdown()

Testing and releases

• xUnit test project (Shared.Tests): 19 tests across ChatLogParser, ChatLogScanner, LocalizationController
• GitHub Actions build.yml: build + test on every push/PR (windows-latest)
• GitHub Actions release.yml: tag-push publishes 4 single-file artifacts (fdd + self-contained × Parser + Assistant) and creates the GitHub release
• CHANGELOG.md in Keep a Changelog format

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