improvements: minor logger improvements

Author: drwatson1

ProjectTemplates/AspNetCore.WebApi/ReferenceProject/ReferenceProject/Middleware/ExceptionMiddleware.cs

@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 using System.Threading.Tasks;
 using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;
 using Newtonsoft.Json;
-using Newtonsoft.Json.Serialization;
 using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting;
 using ReferenceProject.Exceptions;
 

ProjectTemplates/AspNetCore.WebApi/ReferenceProject/ReferenceProject/Program.cs

@@ -22,11 +22,16 @@ public static IWebHostBuilder CreateWebHostBuilder(string[] args) =>
                 {
                     logging.ClearProviders();
 
+                    /*
+                     * You can use a global logger as this, but I don't recommend this way
                     Log.Logger = new LoggerConfiguration()
                         .ReadFrom.Configuration(context.Configuration)
                         .CreateLogger();
+                    */
 
-                    logging.AddSerilog();
+                    logging.AddSerilog(new LoggerConfiguration()
+                        .ReadFrom.Configuration(context.Configuration)
+                        .CreateLogger());
                 })
                 .ConfigureAppConfiguration(x => 
                 {

ProjectTemplates/AspNetCore.WebApi/ReferenceProject/ReferenceProject/Startup.cs

@@ -10,18 +10,21 @@
 using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Routing;
 using Microsoft.Extensions.Configuration;
 using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;
+using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;
 using Newtonsoft.Json;
 using Newtonsoft.Json.Serialization;
 using ReferenceProject.Middleware;
 using ReferenceProject.Modules;
-using Serilog;
 
 namespace ReferenceProject
 {
     public class Startup
     {
-        public Startup(IConfiguration configuration, IHostingEnvironment env)
+        ILogger<Startup> Logger { get; }
+
+        public Startup(IConfiguration configuration, IHostingEnvironment env, ILogger<Startup> logger)
         {
+            Logger = logger;
             Configuration = configuration;
 
             var envPath = Path.Combine(env.ContentRootPath, ".env");
@@ -37,7 +40,6 @@ public Startup(IConfiguration configuration, IHostingEnvironment env)
                     NullValueHandling = NullValueHandling.Ignore,
                     DefaultValueHandling = DefaultValueHandling.Include,
                     ReferenceLoopHandling = ReferenceLoopHandling.Ignore,
-                    //Formatting = Formatting.Indented,
 #if DEBUG
                     Formatting = Formatting.Indented
 #else
@@ -116,7 +118,7 @@ public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app/*, IHostingEnvironment env*/)
 
             app.UseMvcWithDefaultRoute();
 
-            Log.Information("Server started");
+            Logger.LogInformation("Server started");
         }
     }
 }

ProjectTemplates/AspNetCore.WebApi/ReferenceProject/ReferenceProject/appsettings.Development.json

@@ -1,12 +1,11 @@
 {
-    "Logging": {
-        "LogLevel": {
+    "Serilog": {
+        "MinimumLevel": {
             "Default": "Debug",
-            "System": "Information",
-            "Microsoft": "Information"
+            "Override": {
+                "Microsoft": "Debug",
+                "System": "Debug"
+            }
         }
-    },
-    "Serilog": {
-        "MinimumLevel": "Verbose"
     }
 }

ProjectTemplates/AspNetCore.WebApi/ReferenceProject/ReferenceProject/appsettings.json

@@ -1,9 +1,4 @@
 {
-    "Logging": {
-        "LogLevel": {
-            "Default": "Warning"
-        }
-    },
     "Serilog": {
         "MinimumLevel": {
             "Default": "Warning",