I did some quick tests and seems to be possible using reflection to generate
an XmlDocument.
I have just one issue, because a lot of Properties should not be store in
the XmlDocument (for example for any Appender : name, encoding,
errorhandler, securitycontext, ...) Would it possible in the next version of
log4net to implement a custom attribute to mark the Properties that are
"exportable" or not?
That will save a lot of if statement in order to skip these properties.
Is there a DTD available to validate the log4net.config?
Ciao,
Richard.
-----Original Message-----
From: Ron Grabowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 12:18 PM
To: Log4NET User
Subject: RE: Programmatically update the config file.
I would look at the source code to see how log4net reads and processes its
config file. I think I saw an overload for Configure(XmlElement).
DOMConfigurator
--- Richard Louapre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for your answer.
>
> <log4net>
> <appender name="Console" type="log4net.Appender.ConsoleAppender">
> <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
> <!-- Pattern to output the caller's file name and
> line number -->
> <conversionPattern value="%5level [%thread]
> (%file:%line) - %message %newline" />
> </layout>
> </appender>
> <root>
> <level value="DEBUG"/>
> <appender-ref ref="Console" />
> </root>
> </log4net>
>
> So if I understand correctly, I will need to generate "manually" an
> XmlDocument for this log4net settings above. There is no way to
> serialize the Hierarchy object and get in output this XmlDocument?
> If there is no way, is there an exact matching between the property
> name and
> associated node in the config file? That could help me a lot using
> Reflection.
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Ciao,
> Richard.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Grabowski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 11:50 AM
> To: Log4NET User
> Subject: Re: Programmatically update the config file.
>
>
> The config file is just a standard XML file. Have you tried using an
> XmlDocument object to read the file in, make your changes, then write
> it back to the file system? If you've configured log4net to place a
> file system
> watch on the file, when you save the file back out to the hard drive
> log4net
> will re-process it and the changes will take affect.
>
>
> - Ron
>
> --- Richard Louapre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I need to programmatically update the config file (log4net.config)
> in
> > order to keep the changes apply to my log system.
> > I did not find anything to do that, maybe I have missed something.
> >
> > Does anybody have an sample?
> >
> > Many Thanks.
> >
> > Ciao,
> > Richard.
> >
>
