Re: Possible To Name Log File After Assembly?

[Ron Grabowski]

Someone had suggested this feature over a year ago:

http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4NET-10

They suggested using the %v pattern. Which value do you want outputed:

 Assembly.GetCallingAssembly()
 Assembly.GetEntryAssembly()
 Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly()

Do you have any suggestions for what the other useful names would be? Since 
these patterns probably won't get used as often as some of the other patterns, 
I think its ok to use longer, more descriptive names (I don't know if these 
would give you log4net information or information from your application):

 %callingAssembly
 %entryAssembly
 %executingAssembly

LocationInformation doesn't store the System.Type of the LoggingEvent (for 
serialization reasons?). One solution would be to write a small helper function 
that translates the ClassName string into the appropriate Type (or Assembly):

// untested
public class CallingAssemblyPatternConverter : PatternLayoutConverter 
{
 override protected void Convert(TextWriter writer, LoggingEvent loggingEvent)
 {
  Type locationInformationType = 
getTypeForClassNameloggingEvent.LocationInformation.ClassName);
  writer.Write(locationInformationType.Assembly.FullName);
 }
}

A more clever way may be to extract the assembly name from the full qualified 
ClassName string:

writer.Write(loggingEvent.LocationInformation.ClassName.Split(',')[1]);

The problem with the Split() method is that you will may get extra information 
like versioning information.


----- Original Message ----

From: Milad Ershaghi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: log4net-user@logging.apache.org

Sent: Monday, November 6, 2006 9:29:58 PM

Subject: Possible To Name Log File After Assembly?



Dear Community,



I was wondering if it is possible to name a log file after an assembly

via the config file. Here is my config file:



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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<configuration>

    <configSections>

        <section name="log4net"

type="System.Configuration.IgnoreSectionHandler"/>

    </configSections>

    <log4net>

        <root>

            <level value="ALL"/>

            <appender-ref ref="LogFileAppender"/>

        </root>

        <appender name="LogFileAppender"

type="log4net.Appender.FileAppender">

            <threshold value="ALL"/>

            <file value="log4net.log"/>

            <appendToFile value="false"/>

            <immediateFlush value="true"/>

            <lockingModel

type="log4net.Appender.FileAppender+ExclusiveLock" />

            <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">

                <header value="[Start of

Execution]&#13;&#10;"/>

                <footer value="[End of

Execution]&#13;&#10;"/>

                <conversionPattern value="%date

[%thread] %-5level %logger [%property{NDC}] - %message%newline"/>

            </layout>

        </appender>

  </log4net>

</configuration>



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Would it be possible to replace "log4net.log" with some other parameter

that would refer to the assembly name say in braces and then add on a

file extension. For example:



<file value="{AssemblyName}.log"/>



Or is there some other way to accomplish this?



Thanks



Sincerely,



Milad