Provide example of Interface/Abstract class with values

[Alxandr]

I'm trying to translate the following to config:

new JsonFormatter(renderMessage: true)

I came across this repo, and I imagine I can figure out how to do this, but it would be great if there was an example of this kind of value ready.

[tsimbalar]

Hi Aleksander ,

It is not supported right now in any of the Settings providers for Serilog right now, unfortunately (calling a constructor and passing parameters is not doable at the moment).

Some workarounds you can use :

• store a static property that would contain that instance properly initialized , similar to https://github.com/tsimbalar/serilog-settings-comparison/blob/master/test/Serilog.Settings.Comparison.Tests/Support/Formatting/CustomFormatters.cs

serilog-settings-comparison/test/Serilog.Settings.Comparison.Tests/Support/Formatting/CustomFormatters.cs

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	using Serilog.Formatting;
	namespace Serilog.SettingsComparisonTests.Support.Formatting
	{
	public static class CustomFormatters
	{
	public static ITextFormatter Formatter {get;} = new MyFormatter();
	}
	}

• reference it through the "static" member access syntax as described here https://github.com/tsimbalar/serilog-settings-comparison/blob/master/docs/README.md#public-static-properties , this should look like this :

serilog-settings-comparison/test/Serilog.Settings.Comparison.Tests/3-Advanced settings formats/332-ImplementationViaStaticProperty.config

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	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
	<configuration>
	<appSettings>
	<add key="serilog:using:TestDummies" value="TestDummies" />
	<add key="serilog:write-to:DummyWithFormatter.formatter" value="Serilog.SettingsComparisonTests.Support.Formatting.CustomFormatters::Formatter, Serilog.Settings.Comparison.Tests" />
	<add key="serilog:write-to:DummyConsole.theme" value="TestDummies.Console.Themes.ConsoleThemes::Theme1, TestDummies" />
	</appSettings>
	</configuration>

or

serilog-settings-comparison/test/Serilog.Settings.Comparison.Tests/3-Advanced settings formats/332-ImplementationViaStaticProperty.json

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	{
	"Serilog": {
	"Using": [ "TestDummies" ],
	"WriteTo": [
	{
	"Name": "DummyWithFormatter",
	"Args": {
	"formatter": "Serilog.SettingsComparisonTests.Support.Formatting.CustomFormatters::Formatter, Serilog.Settings.Comparison.Tests"
	}
	},
	{
	"Name": "DummyConsole",
	"Args": {
	"theme": "TestDummies.Console.Themes.ConsoleThemes::Theme1, TestDummies"
	}
	}
	]
	}
	}

I hope this helps !

[Alxandr]

Bummer. Thanks for this info though :)

[tsimbalar]

I don't know if that's a common enough scenario to ask for the creation of some static properties in JsonFormatter in the core Serilog repo : JsonFormatter.WithRenderedMessage or something like that

public static ITextFormatter WithRenderedMessage {get;} = new JsonFormatter(renderMessage: true);

which would allow to use it directly in the settings providers with something like :

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 
 <configuration> 
   <appSettings>
     <add key="serilog:write-to:DummyWithFormatter.formatter" value="Serilog.Formatting.Json.JsonFormatter::WithRenderedMessage, Serilog" /> 
   </appSettings> 
</configuration> 

@nblumhardt : would that make sense, or would that just add noise in the core repo ?

[Alxandr]

@tsimbalar Or provide a way to use constructors.

"formatter": {
  "@type": "Serilog.Formatting.Json.JsonFormatter",
  "renderMessage": true
}

This is basically the logic already used to allow doing DymmyWithFormatter.formatter already, just recursively.