Re: Is there a way to use log4net without the App.Config file all-together?

[Ron Grabowski]

What is Common.Logging? It isn't part of the log4net distribution. 

This is how you configure log4net from a string:

string log4netConfig = getLog4netConfig(); // "<log4net>...</log4net>"
XmlDocument log4netXmlDocument = new XmlDocument();
log4netXmlDocument.LoadXml(log4netConfig);
XmlConfigurator.Configure(
 (XmlElement)log4netXmlDocument.GetElementsByTagName("log4net")[0]);

If you're getting an error when you remove the log4net section from your 
App.config I suspect its from the Common.Logging expecting there to be a 
log4net configuration in the App.config (hence the setting INLINE). If you 
don't want the log4net config to be in the file, why not just put it in its own 
file?

 <arg key="configType" value="FILE" />

 <arg key="configFile" value="log4net.config" />


----- Original Message ----

From: Theron Kousek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: log4net-user@logging.apache.org

Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 12:40:58 PM

Subject: Is there a way to use log4net without the App.Config file all-together?



Hi All:

     

   Maybe you can point me in the right direction.   I’m using .NET 1.1 and 
log4net 1.2.

     

   I was able to get log4net integrated into a WinForms application in C#.   My 
manager asked if I could completely remove all log4net dependencies to the 
App.Config file.

     

   I was able to pull out all of the entries in between:

     

   <log4net>

   ….

   </log4net>

     

   (and now get them from a database row as a clob) and have them streamed into 
the XmlConfigurator.Configure(…).   

     

   However, I discovered that I must still have the following in the App.Config:

     

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

   <configuration>

     <configSections>        

       <sectionGroup name="common">

         <section name="logging" 
type="Common.Logging.ConfigurationSectionHandler, Common.Logging" />

       </sectionGroup>

       <section name="log4net" 
type="log4net.Config.Log4NetConfigurationSectionHandler,log4net" />

     </configSections>

     <common>

       <logging>

         <factoryAdapter 
type="Common.Logging.Log4Net.Log4NetLoggerFactoryAdapter, 
Common.Logging.Log4Net">

           <!-- choices are INLINE, FILE, FILE-WATCH, EXTERNAL-->

           <!-- otherwise BasicConfigurer.Configure is used   -->

           <!-- log4net configuration file is specified with key configFile-->

           <arg key="configType" value="INLINE" />

         </factoryAdapter>

       </logging>

     </common>  

   </configuration>

     

   If I attempt to “pull out” the above from the app.config and “stream” it 
into the XmlConfigurator, the call to 

     

   private static readonly ILog Log = LogManager.GetLogger(typeof(MainForm));   
       

     

   ends up returning an instance of Common.Logging.Simple.NoOpLogger

   rather than Common.Logging.Log4net.Log4NetLogger.

     

     

   Does anyone know of a way that I can completely do away with the Config file 
(as per my manager’s request) and programmatically load the

   Log4net runtime with the data that would otherwise be contained in the 
App.Config “section data” section?

     

     

   Thanks in advance for any help!!!

   Theron Kousek 

   Keefe Commissary Network 

   Phone (314) 919-4172 

   Fax: (314) 919-4109 

   Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]