Autoloading of NLog Extensions Question

[coolhome]

Type (choose one): Question
NLog version: (e.g. 4.6.3)
NLog.Extensions.Logging version: (e.g. 1.5.0)
NLog.Web.AspNetCore version: (e.g. 4.8.1)
Platform: .Net 4.5 / .NET Core 1 / .NET Core 2

With the support of loading configuration from Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration in 1.5.0 what is the current limitation for auto loading NLog extensions. The readme does not elaborate on why it won't work yet.

[coolhome]

After digging around I discovered that it actually works in 1.5.0!

{
  "NLog": {
    "ThrowConfigExceptions": true,
    "Extensions": [
      {
        "Assembly":  "NLog.Extensions.AzureStorage" 
      }
    ],
    // ...
}

[czd890]

nlog.config convert to json config. extensions is not work.

{
"NLog": {
        "Extensions": {
            "Assembly": "NLog.MailKit"
        },
        "internalLogLevel": "Info",
        "internalLogFile": "./log/nlog-internal.log",
    }
}

./log/nlog-internal.log output

2019-05-17 12:04:46.3607 Info Message Template Auto Format enabled
2019-05-17 12:04:46.5460 Info Adding target NullTarget(Name=blackhole)
2019-05-17 12:04:46.6423 Info Adding target FileTarget(Name=default-log)
2019-05-17 12:04:46.7648 Info Adding target MailTarget(Name=error-email)
2019-05-17 12:04:46.8218 Info Adding target FileTarget(Name=error-log)
2019-05-17 12:04:46.8775 Info Adding target FileTarget(Name=monitor-data)
2019-05-17 12:04:46.9347 Info Adding target FileTarget(Name=raw-receive-data)
2019-05-17 12:04:46.9892 Info Adding target FileTarget(Name=raw-send-data)
2019-05-17 12:04:47.0448 Info Adding target FileTarget(Name=report-state-data)
2019-05-17 12:04:47.1641 Info Found 147 configuration items
2019-05-17 12:05:24.2041 Error MailTarget(Name=error-email): Error sending mail. Exception: System.Net.Mail.SmtpException: The operation has timed out.
at System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient.Send(MailMessage message)
at NLog.Internal.MySmtpClient.NLog.Internal.ISmtpClient.Send(MailMessage msg)
at NLog.Targets.MailTarget.ProcessSingleMailMessage(IList`1 events)

[czd890]

Not work config json

{
"NLog": {
        "Extensions": {
            "Assembly": "NLog.MailKit"
        },
        "internalLogLevel": "Info",
        "internalLogFile": "./log/nlog-internal.log",
    }
}

Is work json config

{
    "NLog": {
        "Extensions": {
            "mailKit": {
                "Assembly": "NLog.MailKit"
            }
        }
    }
}

[snakefoot]

The local alias of the extension can be random (ex "mailkit"). But I like this better:

        "Extensions": {
            "NLog.MailKit": {
                "Assembly": "NLog.MailKit"
            }
        },

Updated the example config in #263

[snakefoot]

Created a wiki-page, instead of having the example json-config in a PR:

https://github.com/NLog/NLog.Extensions.Logging/wiki/Json-NLog-Config