Re: Log4Net Appender

By "each class that is loaded" do you mean each instance of the class needs to write to its own company database?

 CompanyService companyService = new CompanyService("AlphaCompany");
 CompanyService companyService = new CompanyService("BetaCompany");
 CompanyService companyService = new CompanyService("GammaCompany");

If that's the case you could extend ILog and add methods that accept an identifer which would be used as the
database table:

public class CompanyService
{
  private readonly static DatabaseLog log = new DatabaseLog(LogManager.GetLogger(typeof(CompanyService)));

  private string companyName;

  public CompanyService(string companyName)
  {
   this.companyName = companyName;
  }

  private int CalculateSomething()
  {
   log.Debug(companyName, "Starting to calculate something");
  }
}

And/or you could create a custom AdoNetAppender that looks for a special MDC value and understands what
database table to map that to:

<appender name="CompanyAdoNetAppender">
 <companyToTableMappings>
   <companyToTable company="AlphaCompany" table="Alpha" />
   <companyToTable company="BetaCompany" table="Beta" />
 </companyToTableMappings>
</appender>

----- Original Message ----
From: Scott Carr <scarr <at> progbits.com>
To: log4net-dev <at> logging.apache.org
Sent: Wednesday, June 4, 2008 1:14:26 PM
Subject: Log4Net Appender

I am using a static logger at the top of my class, and it is working fine.

Now I need to create an Appender that goes to a specific Company db.  
This changes for each class that is loaded, though.  Is there a way to 
use the static logger in this fashion, where I can change the specific 
instance for the Class Logger?

What would be the best way to implement this?

Should this go on the users list instead? 

Thanks