Using Castle Windor's Logging Facility in Static Methods

Question

I haven't been able to find much good documentation for Castle's logging facility, but reading here gives me enough to work with. I have one question though, how do you obtain a logger in situations where you can't use properties. Two examples I can think of are in a static method or inside of a struct.

Bonus points for any useful documentation of this facility.

Answer 1

Just get the logger from the underlying log implementation, e.g. for log4net:

    private static readonly ILog logger = LogManager.GetLogger(typeof(MyClass));

Using the container for this case is more complex and just pointless.

Logging facility docs are here.

Answer 2

I don't use Castle or any other DI/IoC at the moment, so I can't comment on the validity or not or logging a static or a struct...

Having said that, it seems like it should not be too difficult to log from a static method (on a non-static class). It might be cheesy, but I suppose you could do something like this:

public class MyClass
{
  private ILogger logger = NullLogger.Instance;
  private static ILogger staticLogger;

  public ILogger Logger 
  { 
    get
    {
      return logger;
    }
    set 
    {
      logger = value; 
      if (staticLogger == null)
      {
        staticLogger = value;
      }
    }
  }

  public void MyMethod()
  {
    logger.Info("Hello from instance method!");
  }

  public static void MyStaticMethod()
  {
    staticLogger.Info("Hello from static method!");
  }
}

Probably have to be careful not to log with the static logger before the real logger gets injected.