console.log in the init context doesn't respect --console-output

[mstoykov]

After #982 the console will be usable inside the init context, closing #951.

Unfortunately because of many shortcomings in the design respecting --console-output turned out to require a quite a big refactoring to make it work which is why it's currently not working.

[na--]

I suspect this, along with #889, would be much cleaner to fix after #1007 is merged. There are quite a few things that are cleaned up and refactored there that would hopefully make fixing this easier.

[na--]

I think we actually need to make a breaking change here 😞 I don't think you should be able to configure consoleOutput from the exported script options, this should be a global option for k6 run only, or a runtime option. This will also fix the issue with it not being available in the init context

[na--]

Actually, it's not going to be a breaking change, because of the json:"-" tag in https://github.com/loadimpact/k6/blob/8507e1d341723e956604b17a58a4485cb2db177e/lib/options.go#L287

So, this should be simple and painless to fix, I think.

[mstoykov]

I remember I did actually test that you can't actually redirect from the script ... you can test again - maybe something broke :D
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