Which pattern to use for logging? Dependency Injection or Service Locator?

Question

Consider this scenario. I have some business logic that now and then will be required to write to a log.

interface ILogger
{
    void Log(string stuff);
}

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Answer 1

You could derive another type e.g. LoggableBusinessObject that takes a logger in its constructor. This means you only pass in the logger for objects that will use it:

public class MyBusinessObject
{
    private IDependency _dependency;

    public MyBusinessObject(IDependency dependency)   
    {   
        _dependency = dependency;   
    }   

    public virtual string DoSomething(string input)   
    {   
        // Process input   
        var info = _dependency.GetInfo();   
        var result = PerformInterestingStuff(input, info);   
        return result;   
    }   
}

public class LoggableBusinessObject : MyBusinessObject
{
    private ILogger _logger;

    public LoggableBusinessObject(ILogger logger, IDependency dependency)
        : base(dependency)
    {
        _logger = logger;
    }

    public override string DoSomething(string input)
    {
        string result = base.DoSomething(input);
        if (result == "SomethingWeNeedToLog")
        {
             _logger.Log(result);
        }
    }
}