Make RollingFileAppender.RollOverRenameFiles virtual

[FerdinandStapenhorst]

This is a Feature Request

Compressing Rolled files in RollingFileAppender

I would like to be able to compress rolled files once thy are created. I don't see any way to get notified if a log file was rolled. Either a Callback or a protected override in the RollingFileAppender class signalling the log file rolling process, so I can interject and do a compression, would be great!

For example, it would be sufficient - I think - to change
protected void RollOverRenameFiles(string baseFileName)
to
protected virtual void RollOverRenameFiles(string baseFileName)

because then I could create a class

public class CompressingFileAppender : RollingFileAppender
{
  protected virtual void RollOverRenameFiles(string baseFileName)
  {
      // Do the compression stuff here...
  }
}

Ferdinand

[FreeAndNil]

Hi @FerdinandStapenhorst,

I made the method virtual in #206.

Regards.

Next preview will arrive this week, 3.0.3 probably mid November.

[FerdinandStapenhorst]

Thank you so much!

[FreeAndNil]

@FerdinandStapenhorst 3.0.3 was released.
https://github.com/apache/logging-log4net/releases/tag/rel/3.0.3