#Writing a reporter


##Naming

    your package should be name as `cortex-test-<name>-reporter`.
    after `npm install cortex-test-<name>-reporter -g` it can be use by `--reporter <name>`.

##Handle events

you should handle events to print funny things to your terminal. and be sure to emit `complete` event when current case is done in all browsers.

see [Writing an adapter](writing-an-adapter.md#the-runner-instance) to learn the data structure for events

##Sample code from built-in BaseReporter
```js
function Base(runner) {
    var self = this;
    self.hasFailure = false;

    runner.on('done', function(result) {
        if(!result){return;}
        var browser = result.browser;
        var data = result.data;

        self.logs(data ? data.logs : []);
        self.browser(result.browser);
        self.passes(data.passes);
        self.failures(data.failures);
        self.conclusion(data);
    }).on('complete', function() {
        self.emit("complete", self.hasFailure);
    }).on('error', function(error) {
        logger.error(error);
        self.hasFailure = true;
        logger.error(error.message);
    });
}
```