Btukfyl

So let me just give a bit of context here we use Serilog and we use various sinks including some of our own ones.

For most of the sinks we add extra properties that we need to use to drive logic, such as routing/filtering etc etc

So for us a given log statement may look something like this

public class SomeClass

{

    public String Name { get; set; }

    public string AppType { get; set; }

}



var loggingEnvironment = new SomeClass()

{

    Name = "foo",

    AppType = "test",



};



Logger.Error("{Category} {Message} {@LoggingEnvironment}", LogCategory.BUS, "Oh no its gone bad jim", loggingEnvironment);

Where we need the LoggingEnvironment property to travel all the way through MOST of our sinks.

However for the file Sink output we see if this

2018-11-21 10:30:21.332 [ERR] BUS "Oh no its gone bad jim" SomeClass { Name: "foo", AppType: "test" } 

What we would like the file written text to be its just

2018-11-21 10:30:21.332 [ERR] BUS "Oh no its gone bad jim"

Reading more into this section from Serilog https://github.com/serilog/serilog/wiki/Formatting-Output it talks about the formatters for Message.

Message - The log event's message, rendered as plain text. The :l format specifier switches of quoting of strings, and :j uses JSON-style rendering for any embedded structured data.

But as this extra property is not really part of the message, I don't think that section of the docs applies.

Short of bringing in all the code for the Serilog.Sinks.File into our own codebase, is there a way to get to rid of this (or any other property) value from being written to a sink output?