Referencing Is it possible to display Serilog log in the program's GUI? I have this solution working well for me, however I cannot make it work using an appsettings.json configuration. I've variations along the lines of
{
"Name": "Sink",
"Args": {
"logEventSink": "$sink"
}
with and without the $. The class for this is in my application and the application is in the using statement. I would be grateful for guidance on this.
First of all, you should create a configuration extension method that creates and configures sink. Because Serilog configuration reader looks for extension methods that accept LoggerSinkConfiguration as a first argument:
public static class InMemorySinkConfigurationExtensions
{
public static LoggerConfiguration InMemory(
this LoggerSinkConfiguration loggerConfiguration)
{
return loggerConfiguration.Sink(new InMemorySink());
}
}
Next step - add assembly that has this method declared to the Using section of Serilog configuration:
{
"Serilog": {
"Using": [ "NameOfYourAssembly" ],
// etc
}
And finally, you can add your sink configuration:
{
"Serilog": {
"Using": [ "NameOfYourAssembly" ],
"MinimumLevel": {
"Default": "Debug"
},
"WriteTo": [
{
"Name": "Console"
},
{
"Name": "InMemory", // should match name of extension method
"Args": {
// put here arguments for confuguration extension method
}
}
]
}
}
Also, keep in mind that mentioned implementation of InMemorySink will not work with the configuration file because you don't have reference to the instance of this sink. A dirty way to fix this would be making the Events queue static. Otherwise use sink arguments to specify communication settings.
InMemorySink implementation which you are using. That one is not good. Make events static if you want to use it