Question: Any way to add deconstruction when no at-sign is in message template? about serilog-extensions-logging

[bartelink]

Therefore I asked if it is possible to overwrite this behavior from the outside

Have you considered asking whether the lib would consider exposing a mechanism to expose its raw data (e.g. a dictionary of values like ForContext can use) and/or use @ ? Sounds like the sort of thing that lots of people would be interested in?

As a hack until it's done, you might be able to decorate the ILogger with a helper that inserts an @ into the message template that the lib is passing,`

[nblumhardt]

Hi Gerald!

@ is part of the abstraction - it's recognized by the full-featured structured logging back-ends (Serilog and NLog), has been part of the https://messagetemplates.org spec since the beginning, and is accepted by Microsoft.Exensions.Logging pretty much everywhere. Raising issues with the external libraries is the best path forward :-)

Hope this helps,
Nick

[GeraldLx]

I know the template system now for a long time and love how it works. As long as I am in full control of the code, there is no problem.

I am just in the situation where we use a 3rd party library. (EasyNetQ, if you are interested)

The library has it´s own logging logic and provides implementations for Microsoft and Serilog.

In the end there is a line similar to this:

logger.Error(exception, "The call failed with {information}", information);

while Information is a custom class from the library with an overwritten ToString.

In Seq I can now see this
information: '[ { "Key1": "Value1", "Key2": "Value2" } ]'

So basically the serialized object as string. Of course I would prefer the same data as object in my Seq.

Currently my only chance is to fork the libraries source code and add the @.

Therefore I asked if it is possible to overwrite this behavior from the outside

[sungam3r]

EasyNetQ/EasyNetQ#1484

[nblumhardt]

Closing as stale; looks like @sungam3r has helped find a solution that works with the original source library.