Logger To File and Console - C# Interview Question

C#

At the interview, you may be asked about how you would develop a logger. The question is quite interesting and allows you to check not only the syntactic constructions of the C# language, but also how do you thinking during the development.

The main Requirements for Logger



  1. The logger must be able to write to the console

  2. The logger must be able to write to a file

  3. The logger must be able to write to the console and to a file simultaneously


Let's write a logger one by one with a few comments.

Create Interface


The correct and logical solution would be to define an interface. In our case, there will be one method Log with one parameter message.
public interface ILogger
{ void Log(string message);
}

Create Logger to Console


Implementation for the Console logger.
public class ConsoleLogger : ILogger
{ public void Log(string message) { Console.WriteLine(message); }
}

Create Logger to the File


Here is a simple implementation for the File Logger:
public class FileLogger : ILogger
{ const string path = "myLogFile1.log"; public void Log(string message) { File.AppendAllText(path, message); }
}

Write logs to the Console and File simultaneously


Here is an example of the aggregated logger:
public class MultipleLogger: ILogger
{ private readonly ILogger[] _loggers; public MultipleLogger(params ILogger[] loggers) { _loggers = loggers; } public void Log(string Message) { foreach (var logger in _loggers) { logger.Log(Message); } }
}

Now using the MultipleLogger you can write logs in files and console. You just need to declare:
var multipleLogger = new MultipleLogger(new ConsoleLogger(), new FileLogger());

Such a solution will show the correct approach to this task. And you will earn points for the interview 😎

 

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