Thank I will, at a glance it looks like it'll give me what I need.
However, what's the relationship between the Appenders in the examples and
the core log4net Appenders? If I start to use this and others such as the
AsyncAppender how do they figure in the overall product.
Thanks for the assistance.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ron Grabowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Log4NET Dev" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, February 02, 2007 4:30 AM
Subject: Re: Retrieving MessageObject property values for logging...
Have you looked at MessageObjectExpanderAppender?
http://tinyurl.com/3dnnf3
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/logging/log4net/trunk/examples/net/1.0/Appenders/SampleAppendersApp/cs/src/Appender/MessageObjectExpanderAppender.cs?view=markup
Its a forwarding appender that extracts all the public properties from the
MessageObject and places their values in the LoggingEvent's Properties so
the appender that actually does the logging can access them.
----- Original Message ----
From: Matthew Braid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, February 1, 2007 6:03:30 PM
Subject: Retrieving MessageObject property values for logging...
Hi
Does a mechanism exist through which I can access the contents of the
MessageObject (within the LoggingEvent) via the layout patterns?
For example, in my project I'm logging classes MyLogEvent to log4net rather
than strings. I intended reusing existing appenders (such as the
AdoNetAppender) to log these rather than write my own but can't see a way of
accessing my specific object's properties.
Looking at the source (v1.2.10) I couldn't see anything within the
PatternLayout that would cover this scenario, so I've added a new
log4net.Layout.Pattern.MessageObjectPatternConverter (modelled on the
PropertyPatternConverter) and wired it into the PatterLayout invoked as
%object{<object property>}.
Does anyone have any views on the desirability or practicality of such a
feature? If there's interest I'm more that happy to contribute the code and
unit tests, otherwise I'll investigate other routes.
Thanks
Matt.
