Now, that *is *interesting.
Apparently, log4net sets the category of the debug message to the logger
name. You can try it for yourself:
logger.Debug("hello!");
Debug.WriteLine("hello!",logger.Logger.Name);
.... should produce the same output.
This is actually by design, per the documentation:
http://logging.apache.org/log4net/release/sdk/log4net.Appender.DebugAppender.html
So, back to your original question before I totally understood the problem:
yes, you can control this, but you'll have to set up another logger. You
could do something like this:
<logger name="">
<appender-ref ref="DebugAppender"/>
</logger>
...and then use
log4net.LogManager.GetLogger(string.Empty);
...to accomplish what you're trying to do, at least for development. You
should *not* leave it that way for production. In fact, I'd recommend
naming the logger something meaningful (although shorter than your
namespace) and using that.
-Ross
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:44 PM, Steven Whatmore <
steven.whatm...@purefacts.com> wrote:
> First, thanks for the assistance.
>
> Okay so I took out %logger from the configuration
>
> <appender name="DebugAppender" type="log4net.Appender.DebugAppender">
> <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
> <conversionPattern value="%date %-5level [%thread] -
> %message%newline" />
> </layout>
> </appender>
> <appender name="RollingFileAppender"
> type="log4net.Appender.RollingFileAppender">
> <file value="c:\app.log" />
> <appendToFile value="true" />
> <rollingStyle value="Size" />
> <maxSizeRollBackups value="10" />
> <maximumFileSize value="100KB" />
> <staticLogFileName value="true" />
> <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
> <conversionPattern value="%date %-5level [%thread] %logger -
> %message%newline" />
> </layout>
> </appender>
>
> and this is what I got
>
> com.pf.util.implementation.AppConfigurationImpl: 2010-05-11
> 12:50:05,466 DEBUG [9] - handling sessionStart event
>
> I am grabbing the logger by Type using
>
> protected static new readonly ILog log =
> LogManager.GetLogger(System.Reflection.MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod().DeclaringType);
>
> and my current configuration only has the root logger defined
>
> <root>
> <level value="DEBUG" />
> <appender-ref ref="DebugAppender" />
> <appender-ref ref="RollingFileAppender" />
> </root>
>
> Interesting enough the entries in my RollingFileAppender are coming out
> exactly as I expected.
>
> 2010-05-11 13:33:54,150 DEBUG [13]
> com.purefacts.util.reports.implementation.ReportingApplicationConfigurationImpl
> - handling sessionStart event
>
>
>
>
> From: Ross Hinkley [mailto:rosshink...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 1:30 PM
> To: Log4NET User
> Subject: Re: Controlling the log message format
>
> Won't %logger contain the logger name? How are you retrieving the logger
> from the log manager? If you're using it by type, and are using the root
> logger, I believe the log name defaults to the namespace of your binary.
>
> -Ross
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Steven Whatmore <
> steven.whatm...@purefacts.com> wrote:
> That is what I thought - but no luck with that - I can't remember which
> class I was looking at but it sure looks like you can't control that prefix
> value - which I thought was very strange
>
> From: Ross Hinkley [mailto:rosshink...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 1:07 PM
> To: Log4NET User
> Subject: Re: Controlling the log message format
>
> This should be controllable via the conversionPattern. Something like the
> following in your appender, maybe?
>
> <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
> <conversionPattern value="%date %-5level - %message%newline" />
> </layout>
>
> -Ross
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Steven Whatmore <
> steven.whatm...@purefacts.com> wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> I would like to be able to control the format of the message, removing the
> initial prefix
>
> As an example if the format of my message is:
>
> com.pf.util.implementation.AppConfigurationImpl: 2010-05-11
> 12:50:05,466 DEBUG [9] com.pf.util.implementation.AppConfigurationImpl -
> handling sessionStart event
>
> I would like to remove the initial
> "com.pf.util.implementation.AppConfigurationImpl" part resulting in:
>
> 2010-05-11 12:50:05,466 DEBUG [9]
> com.pf.util.implementation.AppConfigurationImpl - handling sessionStart
> event
>
> I have tried it through configuration but can't seem to control the prefix
>
> I took a quick look through the code and as far as I can tell this is not
> configurable.
>
> Am I correct?
>
> Whatty
>
>
>
