Logging from within the migration

[LSTANCZYK]

I would like to be able to log information from inside of the migration. This should be included in the output log. Is this currently possible and if not, please consider it as a feature request.

[sjorsmiltenburg]

I would also like to know this..

[eloekset]

I don't think it's possible. I've been using Console.WriteLine() from within my migrations, but that obviously works when run in a console runner only.

[sjorsmiltenburg]

what I did was create a custom announcer which writes to log4net.
this way the normal output is logged to log4net and I can log myself during a migration using log.Debug

`public class Log4netAnnouncer : Announcer
{
private static readonly log4net.ILog Log = log4net.LogManager.GetLogger(System.Reflection.MethodBase.GetCurrentMethod().DeclaringType);

    public override void Write(string message, bool escaped)
    {
        Log.Debug(message);
    }

    public override void Error(Exception exception)
    {
        base.Error(exception);
        Log.Error(exception);
    }
}`

[fubar-coder]

I think about using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging and Microsoft.Extensions.DepencencyInjection. This would allow log message filtering and DI for migrations, which would be a solution for this problem.

[fubar-coder]

Fixed in develop branch