README.md

Using Log4Net for AutoRest Generated Clients:

1- Configure the log4net in your app.config/web.config (or your preferred way). For more examples on the available configurations check config examples Here's an example of app.config for the logger used with ConsoleAppender:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<configuration>
  <configSections>
    <section name="log4net" type="log4net.Config.Log4NetConfigurationSectionHandler, log4net"/>
  </configSections>

  <log4net>
    <appender name="ConsoleAppender" type="log4net.Appender.ConsoleAppender">
      <layout type="log4net.Layout.SimpleLayout" />
    </appender>

    <root>
      <level value="ALL" />
      <appender-ref ref="ConsoleAppender" />
    </root>

    <logger name="Microsoft.Rest.Tracing.Log4Net.Log4NetTracingInterceptor">
      <level value="DEBUG" />
      <appender-ref ref="ConsoleAppender"/>
    </logger>
  </log4net>
</configuration>

2- Configure log4net in the application that is using a generated client library. This can be done by A) Adding this line to AssemblyInfo.cs of the application:

[assembly: log4net.Config.XmlConfigurator(Watch = true, ConfigFile = "FileName.ext")]

B) Passing the config file name to ```Log4NetTracingInterceptor``` constructor.

3- Last step is to register the logger into the ServiceClientTracing and enable tracing by having these lines called at the start of the application:

	ServiceClientTracing.AddTracingInterceptor(new Log4NetTracingInterceptor());
	ServiceClientTracing.IsEnabled = true;