Unable to add custom string to log message about nlog.targets.syslog HOT 5 CLOSED

Good idea, let me see what I can do.

How would you want the custom text to show up? Would a prefix [MyCustomText] be fine?

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Thanks @graffen and @tsbrooks. I'd encourage using Layouts for this, for a couple reasons:

• it's the NLog standard that's documented in the core project and users are likely to be familiar with
• it has renderer macros, not just static strings
• it supports more message formats (though in the simplest use, would completely obsolete customprefix)
• it's fairly easy to implement: initialize a Layout object (or more than one if you want more granular layouts for portions of the output), then call its Render method and pass in the LogEventInfo object you have. It returns a string.

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BTW, if you want a hand testing and defaulting to a standard, protocol-compliant remote syslog layout, let me know - happy to help. I'd also document it here.

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@troy Thanks, I wasn't aware of that feature. As I see it, this voids this issue (#2) completely, since the Layout can simply be configured to contain whatever identifier string you would like.

I'll probably remove the customprefix again and simply add a pointer to the documentation.

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@graffen: There's a couple code changes that need to happen for Layouts to work. I haven't implemented it, so I may be missing elements, but it looks like you'll need:

• to inherit from the abstract class TargetWithLayout
• getters and setters for at least one Layout object like this, and probably overwriting the default value
• evaluating the layout with the log event like this

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