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How to migrate NLog configuration from XML file(s) to application settings (JSON)?
I have just created an ASP.NET Core 6 application and added NLog support for logging:
NLogBuilder.ConfigureNLog("nlog.config").GetCurrentClassLogger()
However, this API is almost deprecated as the remarks says:
It is now recommended to use NLog.LogManager.Setup().LoadConfigurationFromAppSettings()
I began switching to using appsettings.json as it seems idiomatic when working in ASP.NET Core (one expects for virtually all app configurations to be defined here).
The first step was to automatically migrate from XML to JSON using this resource.
However, the JSON file is not exactly what NLog configuration parser expects.
I am wondering if there is any guide or tool to help with such a migration?
1 answer
FreeFormatter resource mentioned in the question is useful and I could use the output as a base for getting to a working configuration. All the changes were manually performed.
- enable throw configuration exceptions and allow for internal log messages to be output in a file for understanding what is wrong with the configuration
"throwConfigExceptions": "true",
"internalLogLevel": "Debug",
"internalLogFile": "<some_path>\\internal_log.log",
- extensions must be simplified (example):
from
"extensions": {
"add": [
{
"assembly": "NLog.Web.AspNetCore"
},
{
"assembly": "NLog.Appsettings.Standard"
}
]
},
to
"extensions": [
{ "assembly": "NLog.Web.AspNetCore" },
{ "assembly": "NLog.Appsettings.Standard" }
],
- targets must be simplified:
from
"target": {
"name": "foo",
}
to
"foo": {
}
- rules changes:
from
"rules": {
"logger": [
{
"name": "Microsoft.*",
"maxLevel": "Warn",
"writeTo": "blackhole",
"final": "true"
},
to
"rules": [
{
"logger": "Microsoft.*",
"maxLevel": "Warn",
"writeTo": "blackhole",
"final": true
},
This is not an exhaustive list, but it should cover most of the aspects to consider when performing the migration.
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