Support serilog-settings-configuration

[southernprogrammer]

I'm not sure if you've looked into it yet, but it would be nice if this formatter supported having the formatter specified in appsettings.json by utilizing the following project: https://github.com/serilog/serilog-settings-configuration

[0xced]

Actually, Serilog.Formatting.Log4Net already supports the Serilog.Settings.Configuration package. It's even mentioned in the README. 😉

But if you mean configuring the formatter itself (i.e. indentation settings, CDATA mode etc.) then that's not supported simply because it's not how Serilog.Settings.Configuration works.

Does that answer your question?

[southernprogrammer]

Yes, from my understanding it's possible to include some settings if your constructor had the option to take in a standard object instead of a builder (maybe just needing an overload).

[0xced]

You're right. Even though I worked on Serilog.Settings.Configuration I did not remember that this was indeed possible!

It's documented in the Complex parameter value binding section of the README. A formatter can be instantiated by specifying a type and its arguments.

I will consider this for a future release.