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Support layouts (e.g. JSON) and inner text in <variable> #3459

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fixes #1577 and fixes #1312

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@snakefoot I have the idea you don't like this change 👼

@304NotModified 304NotModified changed the title Support layouts and inner text in <variable> Support layouts (e.g. JSON) and inner text in <variable> Jun 7, 2019
@304NotModified 304NotModified added breaking change Breaking API change (different to semantic change) feature nlog-configuration labels Jun 7, 2019
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snakefoot commented Jun 8, 2019 via email

@304NotModified 304NotModified merged commit 3ea1431 into dev Jun 8, 2019
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thanks for the feedback -> #3462

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The value property could just return null in the case of JSON

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snakefoot commented Jun 9, 2019 via email

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'Value' isn't xml specific?

Anyway, do you have a proposal how to solve this different? One way or another, this needs a breaking change.

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snakefoot commented Jun 9, 2019

Yes it will always be a breaking change for the Variables-container. Anyway created #3466

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snakefoot commented Jun 10, 2019

Btw. could be nice if one could make a static reference to a JsonLayout. So one is not required to use "${var:myjson}" but could just write:

    <variable name='myJson'>
        <layout type='JsonLayout'>
            <attribute name='short date' layout='${shortdate}' />
            <attribute name='message' layout='${message}' />
        </layout>
    </variable>
    <targets>
         <target type='file' name='myfile' layout='${myJson}' />
    <targets>

Then one could skip a dictionary lookup for every logevent-write. And one would be able to make use of optimizations like ThreadAgnostic.

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Can I use

"variables": {
      "varDefaultLayout": {
          "type": "JsonLayout",
          "Attributes": [
            {
              "name": "timestamp",
              "layout": "${date:format=o}"
            }
            ]
        }
    },

and then

"targets": {
      "logfile": {
        "layout": "${varDefaultLayout}"

in my target when reading configuration from appsettings.json ?

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snakefoot commented May 10, 2020

Maybe add example to wiki-page, when NLog 5 is released:

NLog JsonLayout as NLog Config Variable Example

<nlog>
  <variable name="defaultJsonLayout" >
    <layout type="JsonLayout">
       <attribute name="message" value="${messsage}">
    </layout>
  </variable>
  <targets>
    <target name="debug" type="Debug" layout="${var:defaultJsonLayout}" />
  </targets>
  <rules>
    <logger name="*" minlevel="Debug" writeTo="debug" />
  </rules>
</nlog>

API

var newJsonLayout = new NLog.Layouts.JsonLayout() { IncludeAllProperties = true };
LogManager.Configuration.Variables["defaultJsonLayout"] = newJsonLayout;

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Updated wiki: https://github.com/NLog/NLog/wiki/Configuration-file#variables

@snakefoot snakefoot added the documentation done all docs done (wiki, api docs, lists on nlog-project.org, xmldocs) label Nov 26, 2021
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Feature Request: Support inner text in <variable> tags Allow: JsonLayout into a variable
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