I am working on a greenfield project and I want to integrate serilog with ninject.
The use case is as follows:
- There are a number of common libraries
- These libraries are used in a number of modules i.e plugins. These plugins each receive a GUID at run time which is unique. This is a base property on an abstract plugin class which every implementation of a plugin inherits
- We want to append this unique name to every log message that a plugin makes
as well as any calls to the common libraries from that plugin so that a log
message can be traced to the unique instance of a plugin that made it
- We would prefer not to modify each class in the common libraries to take in a logger to use to log
My thoughts were to :
- Create a singleton logger provider. This will be called by anything needing to log.
- Use postsharp and CallContext.LogicalSetData to set the GUID prior to any call to the logging provider
- Use CallContext.LogicalGetData to get the GUID in the singleton logger provider. This will either retrieve an existing logger for that GUID using Logger.ContextFor or create a new one to add to a dictionary.
- Use Ninject to resolve the ILoggerProvider to the singleton provider always when requested
Before I down this circuitious route, is there a better way to do this, maybe with ninject?
Thanks for reading.
