Logging as simple as it can be.
Most of the time I don't need a sophisticated logger and I got tired of configuring the same thing for log4net over and over again.
using LLibrary;
var myLogger = new L();
myLogger.Log("INFO", "Some information");
myLogger.Log("ERROR", new Exception("BOOM!"));You can use built-in methods for the classical DEBUG, INFO, WARN, ERROR, FATAL labels (but there's no logging level here, they're just labels):
myLogger.Info("Some information");
myLogger.Error(new Exception("BOOM!"));A file named yyyy-MM-dddd.log will be created in a logs folder (located where the application is running), like 2014-12-16.log containing:
2014-12-16 19:21:45 INFO Some information.
2014-12-16 19:21:52 ERROR A System.Exception happened: BOOM!
The library works out-of-the-box without configuration, but you can configure a thing or two if you want:
var myLogger = new L(
// True to use UTC time rather than local time.
// Defaults to false.
useUtcTime: true,
// If other than null it sets to delete any file in the log folder that is older than the time set.
// Defaults to null.
deleteOldFiles: TimeSpan.FromDays(10),
// Format string to use when calling DateTime.Format.
// Defaults to "yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss".
dateTimeFormat: "dd MMM HH:mm:ss",
// Directory where to create the log files.
// Defaults to null, which creates a local "logs" directory.
directory: @"C:\custom-directory\my-logs\",
// Labels enabled to be logged by the library, an attempt to log with a label that is not enabled is ignored (no error is raised), null or empty enables all labels.
// Defaults to null.
enabledLabels: "INFO", "ERROR"
); To restrict the file size? Log to a database? What about a fancy web interface?
If that is the case, this library is not for you. Consider using other library such as log4net, NLog, ELMAH or Logary.