How to create a LoggerFactory with a ConsoleLoggerProvider?

Question

The ConsoleLoggerProvider has four constructors:

1. ConsoleLoggerProvider(IConsoleLoggerSettings)
2. ConsoleLoggerProvider(IOptionsMonitor<ConsoleLoggerOptions>)
3. ConsoleLoggerProvider(Func<String,LogLevel,Boolean>, Boolean)
4. ConsoleLoggerProvider(Func<String,LogLevel,Boolean>, Boolean, Boolean)

Three of them are declared obsolete with this message:

This method is obsolete and will be removed in a future version. The recommended alternative is using LoggerFactory to configure filtering and ConsoleLoggerOptions to configure logging options.

With constructor #3, creating a LoggerFactory with a ConsoleLoggerProvider is straightforward (as documented on Entity Framework Core - Logging):

var loggerFactory = new LoggerFactory(new[] { new ConsoleLoggerProvider((category, level) => level >= LogLevel.Information, true) });

But since it's deprecated, we are left with constructor #2. Here's what I found to be equivalent:

var configureNamedOptions = new ConfigureNamedOptions<ConsoleLoggerOptions>("", null);
var optionsFactory = new OptionsFactory<ConsoleLoggerOptions>(new []{ configureNamedOptions }, Enumerable.Empty<IPostConfigureOptions<ConsoleLoggerOptions>>());
var optionsMonitor = new OptionsMonitor<ConsoleLoggerOptions>(optionsFactory, Enumerable.Empty<IOptionsChangeTokenSource<ConsoleLoggerOptions>>(), new OptionsCache<ConsoleLoggerOptions>());
var loggerFactory = new LoggerFactory(new[] { new ConsoleLoggerProvider(optionsMonitor) }, new LoggerFilterOptions { MinLevel = LogLevel.Information });

This seems overly complicated, am I missing something simpler?

Answer 1

In .NET Core 2.2, you can build an ILoggerFactory without using obsolete methods through Microsoft's dependency injection framework. It's a little less verbose than the version where everything is constructed by hand. Here’s how:

using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;

IServiceCollection serviceCollection = new ServiceCollection();
serviceCollection.AddLogging(builder => builder
    .AddConsole()
    .AddFilter(level => level >= LogLevel.Information)
);
var loggerFactory = serviceCollection.BuildServiceProvider().GetService<ILoggerFactory>();

And in .NET Core 3.0, you can use LoggerFactory.Create:

var loggerFactory = LoggerFactory.Create(builder => {
        builder.AddFilter("Microsoft", LogLevel.Warning)
               .AddFilter("System", LogLevel.Warning)
               .AddFilter("SampleApp.Program", LogLevel.Debug)
               .AddConsole();
    }
);