Interface IAppender

Namespace

log4net.Appender

Assembly

log4net.dll

Implement this interface for your own strategies for printing log statements.

public interface IAppender

Remarks

Implementors should consider extending the AppenderSkeleton class which provides a default implementation of this interface.

Appenders can also implement the IOptionHandler interface. Therefore they would require that the ActivateOptions() method be called after the appenders properties have been configured.

Properties

Name

Gets or sets the name of this appender.

string Name { get; set; }

Property Value

string

The name of the appender.

Remarks

The name uniquely identifies the appender.

Methods

Close()

Closes the appender and releases resources.

void Close()

Remarks

Releases any resources allocated within the appender such as file handles, network connections, etc.

It is a programming error to append to a closed appender.

DoAppend(LoggingEvent)

Log the logging event in Appender specific way.

void DoAppend(LoggingEvent loggingEvent)

Parameters

loggingEvent LoggingEvent

The event to log

Remarks

This method is called to log a message into this appender.