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patrick conant updated LOG4NET-33:
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Attachment: DefaultRepositorySelector.cs.diff.txt
Here's another stab at enabling an appSettings property to confingure log4net.
The new approach uses the DefaultRepositorySelector to configure only the
default repository. This still has the XmlConfigurator hard-coded.
> Ability to use global property to point to log4net configuration file
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>
> Key: LOG4NET-33
> URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LOG4NET-33
> Project: Log4net
> Type: Improvement
> Components: Core
> Versions: 1.2.9
> Environment: Any
> Reporter: patrick conant
> Priority: Minor
> Attachments: DefaultRepositorySelector.cs.diff.txt, LogManager.cs.diff.txt,
> configuration.xml.diff.txt
>
> The log4j tool has the ability to specify a system property to point to the
> logging configuration file. For instance, when starting a java program (such
> as tomcat), one can pass "-Dlog4j.configuration=http://mydomain/log4j.xml"; as
> a command line parameter. Log4j checks to see whether this property is
> available and, if it is, uses the return value from the URL to configure
> categories and appenders.
> A similar mechanism in log4net would allow a few improvements in logging
> configuring:
> * No need to use the XmlConfiguratorAttribute in any assemblies
> * No need to know at design time where the log4net config file will be located
> * Ability to configure logging for all components in an app domain by setting
> a property in the app domain's config file
> * Ability to configure logging for all components on a machine by setting a
> property in the machine.config file
> * Ability to updating config file contents without updating app or machine
> config contents.
> I'd propose doing a direct mirror of the log4j capabilities into log4net as
> follows:
> * Update the LogManager class with a static constructor that mirrors the
> static block in the LogManager class in log4j
> * Use System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings.Get(...) instead
> of java's System.getProperty(...)
> * Don't support the configuratorClass attribute (yet) because the
> XmlConfigurator seems to be the only logical choice
> * Don't implement the DEFAULT_XML_CONFIGURATION_FILE or
> DEFAULT_CONFIGURATION_FILE property checks (yet).
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