log4net tips: Shortening the type name
If you’re using an appender layout like this:
1: <layout type="log4net.Layout.PatternLayout">
2: <conversionPattern value="%date %level [%thread] %type.%method - %message%n" />
3: </layout>
The conversion pattern is:
%date %level [%thread] %type.%method - %message%n
Which is the default one for the fileLogAppender shipping with EPiServer (note that type & method logging is slow, but immensely useful when you need it.)
A log line could look like this:
2009-12-09 17:27:04,655 INFO [6] Microsoft.Samples.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.Pipe.PipeConnection.Write - 18.3.1 Scheduler info: 2780> Write string Content-Type
The whole type name is included. In most cases, you just need the name of the class and method, which will save you some logging space (more on that later), but it will also make your log easier to read.
The %type pattern supports this syntax: %type{n} where <n> is the number of class/namespaces to include (from the right).
Changing the pattern to:
%date %level [%thread] %type{1}.%method - %message%n
yields the following log:
2009-12-09 17:27:04,655 INFO [6] PipeConnection.Write - 18.3.1 Scheduler info: 2780> Write string Content-Type
Read more about this in the log4net SDK documentation on the PatternLayout class.
Mar 31, 2010
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