Question

I have a project I am working on using log4net, and it works great, but I want to know if i can override the XML configuration for the root ‘level’ attribute for the logging when in debug and release.

Currently my root configuration looks like:

<root>   <level value='WARN'/>   <appender-ref ref='LogFileAppender'/>   <appender-ref ref='DebugAppender'/> </root> 

And in my web applications Global.asax class, I was thinking I could wrap something in a

protected override void Application_Start(object sender, EventArgs e) {   base.Application_Start(sender, e);   XmlConfigurator.Configure();    #if DEBUG   //Change logging level to DEBUG   #endif } 

To change the root logging level to debug when the solution is built in debug.

Is this possible, is my idea a best-practises type soltuion to what I want, and how would I do it (or how would you do it better)?

Answer 1

I do the oposite, in debug mode I use the developer configurations which is better for filtering the relevant messages for me; and in release mode, I lock the level to WARN to prevent a user wants to hack my code (he could use tons of other ways, but this is a 5 seconds trick):

public static void Initialize() {  #if DEBUG     ConfigureAndWatch(); #else     ConfigureAndLockChanges(); #endif  }  #if DEBUG  private static void ConfigureAndWatch() {     XmlConfigurator.ConfigureAndWatch(new FileInfo('log4net.config')); }  #else  private static void ConfigureAndLockChanges() {     // Disable using DEBUG mode in Release mode (to make harder to hack)     XmlConfigurator.Configure(new FileInfo('log4net.config'));     foreach (ILoggerRepository repository in LogManager.GetAllRepositories())     {         repository.Threshold = Level.Warn;     } }  #endif