I want to start by thanking Nicko Cadell for his previous response to this
problem. I'm very pleased that there is a place to find answers for Log4Net.
I was able to configure my appenders to work in tandem, but I still have an
issue.
1) I have created 2 custom appenders that are to log different message
levels that are returned from my application. One appender is to record all
logging levels, while the other is to log ONLY the "Info" entries. Nicko
Cadell suggested I use the Threshold property and assign a value of "Info".
My observation, however, is that the appender with the threshold of "Info"
logs everything but "Debug" statements. As usual, I'm sure I've simply
missed something.
The following is my config file listing:
<log4net>
<appender name="SystemEventInfoLog"
type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender">
<param name="File" value="../logging/" />
<param name="AppendToFile" value="true" />
<param name="RollingStyle" value="Date" />
<param name="MaxSizeRollBackups" value="10" />
<param name="DatePattern"
value="yyyy/MMMMMMMMM/yyyy-MM-dd.\\I\\N\\F\\O"/>
<param name="StaticLogFileName" value="False" />
<param name="Threshold" value="INFO" />
<layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
<param name="Header" value="[BEGIN LOGGING]\r\n" />
<param name="Footer" value="[END LOGGING]\r\n"
/>
<param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d [%t]
%-5p %c [%x] - %m%n" />
</layout>
</appender>
<appender name="SystemLog"
type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender">
<param name="File" value="../logging/" />
<param name="Threshold" value="ALL" />
<param name="AppendToFile" value="true" />
<param name="RollingStyle" value="Date" />
<param name="MaxSizeRollBackups" value="10" />
<param name="DatePattern"
value="yyyy/MMMMMMMMM/yyyy-MM-dd.\\S\\Y\\S\\T\\E\\M"/>
<param name="StaticLogFileName" value="False" />
<layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
<param name="Header" value="[BEGIN LOGGING]\r\n" />
<param name="Footer" value="[END LOGGING]\r\n"
/>
<param name="ConversionPattern" value="%d [%t]
%-5p %c [%x] - %m%n" />
</layout>
</appender>
<!-- Set root logger level to DEBUG and its only appender to A1
-->
<root>
<appender-ref ref="SystemLog" />
<appender-ref ref="SystemEventInfoLog"/>
</root>
</log4net>
2) I would like to create another totally different logger and any design
input would be most appreciated.
The "new" logger/appender will log real-time messages to whatever appender
the user chooses and will have a very specific format (real-time being a
min. of 1 second and no max). The data to be logged is mainly date time,
message type (a constant value I will assign to each message that comes in)
and the message content. I do not need to assign a log level to these
entries and would prefer to not have to deal with log level in my files. The
application can have a number of "Systems" that return real-time messages
and I would like to be able to log the messages for each system in a
separate file (or table) that will use the "System ID " to demark the folder
and filename that is created. Unfortunately my experience with
formatters/layout/objectRenderer is very thin. Does anyone have any feedback
for this? I assume that I will have to dynamically configure the
logger/appender in my code. Will I need to alter the log4net source to
achieve this sort of functionality?
On a side note, is there a list of ConversionPattern Constants? (i.e. %d
[%t] %-5p ...) How about appender parameters?
Thanks once again to the Log4Net team. I hope that with a little more
experience I will be able to start contributing in some way to this great
piece of software, instead of just crying for help. :)
Sincerely,
Russell Haley
Software Developer,
Axys Technologies
http://www.axystechnologies.com
