NLog: Dependency Injection for custom Targets

Question

I am a user of NLog and I am creating my own custom target. This target will use some repositories (using NHibernate) to persist log entries.

Is it possible to inje

Answer 1

The author of the toolkit updated the framework to expose hooks for using your own DI container. The following is one possible usage:

   public class LoggingConfiguration : ILoggingConfiguration
{
    public void SetDependencyResolver(IContainer container)
    {
        ConfigurationItemFactory.Default.CreateInstance = (Type type) => container.GetInstance(type);
    }
}

public static class DiagnosticsConfiguration
{
    public static void Configure(Action configuration)
    {
        var config = new LoggingConfiguration();
        configuration(config);
    }
}

public interface ILoggingConfiguration
{
    void SetDependencyResolver(IContainer container);
}

public interface IContainer
{
    object GetInstance(Type type);
}

public class StructureMapDependencyFactory : IContainer
{
    public object GetInstance(Type type)
    {
        return ObjectFactory.GetInstance(type);
    }

    public T GetInstance()
    {
        return ObjectFactory.GetInstance();
    }
}

Hopefully this will help out someone.

J