通用类型方法快捷方式

Question

I recently wrote a logger class which gets initialized in my IoC .

public static class IoC() {
    public static ILogger Logger => IoC.Get<ILogger>();
    [...]
}

ILogger has generic type method:

void Log<T>(string message, LogLevel level = LogLevel.Info);

So that I could maintain my logs better.

I'm able to call it like:

IoC.Logger.Log<GeneralLog>("My message");

Now, that is pretty long line.

Is there a possibility in C#, so that I could declare a shortcut for the Log<T>() method with pre-defined generic type?

For example:

Instead of

IoC.Logger.Log<GeneralLog>("My message");

I could write

IoC.Logger.General("Message"); // and this should reference to IoC.Logger.Log<GeneralLog>

Answer 1

IoC.Logger is of type ILogger , which presumably is outside your control, so you can't edit it to add that method.

You could write it as an extension method though:

public static class ILoggerExtensions
{
    public static void General(this ILogger logger, string message)
    {
        logger.Log<GeneralLog>(message);
    }
}

Now you can call .General(string) on each ILogger , such as the one returned by IoC.Logger .