Windsor’s Logging Facility; getting a named instance

When using Windsor’s logging facility, you’d usually take a dependency of an ILogger in your component, and have Windsor create the logger instance. The logger’s name will be of your component’s full type name.

e.g. for the following component:

namespace My.Application
{
	public class UsingLogIntegration
	{
		readonly ILogger logger;
		public UsingLogIntegration(ILogger logger)
		{
			this.logger = logger;
		}
	}
}

The logger’s name will be My.Application.UsingLogIntegration

At times, you would need to get a logger in a different way, either because you’d want a special name, or you will be in a location where you cannot have Windsor resolve that for you as a dependency (say within an ASP.NET’s Global.asax class, which gets instantiated by ASP.NET, not by Windsor).

The naive approach would be to ask the container for an ILogger, however if you’d try this, you’ll discover that Container.Resolve<ILogger>() will not fit your needs. So what will you do?

Well, the facility also sets an ILoggerFactory, which is in charge of creating loggers. So, do that instead:

var loggerTypeOrName = GetTheTypeForTheLoggerOrAStringIfYouPrefer();
var logger = Container.Resolve().Create(loggerTypeOrName);

ILoggerFactory.Create() can live with a type (will use the full type name as name) or with a string.