Read from IConfiguration without SectionKey

I’m using Serilog.Settings.Configuration to configure Serilog, and I came across an issue. If I have an IConfiguration that consists of the Serilog-section, how can I configure Serilog with it? ConfigurationLoggerConfigurationExtensions.ConfigurationSection only takes an IConfigurationSection, whilst I have an IConfiguration. And even if I did have a section - it’s marked as obsolete. ConfigurationLoggerConfigurationExtensions.Configuration takes an IConfiguration, but it requires an IConfiguration that is one step back, so it can use the sectionKey to get into it.

Now, I understand that you can’t just add an overload to the abovementioned method, because an overload without the sectionkey already defaults to the key being “Serilog”. Or is there perhaps some other way that I’ve missed? Apart from “just provide an IConfiguration that isn’t already zoomed in to the Serilog section” 😃

[skomis-mm]

👍 I’ll come up with something based on your suggestions

[krafs]

Ah, right. Today, all overloads throw ArgumentNullException if the provided sectionName is null. But changing null to instead indicate that the given IConfiguration is the serilog section would work. As you say - slightly strange, but seems perfectly fine given the circumstances 😃

I was going to suggest making sectionName nullable, but seems like the project doesn’t have nullable reference types enabled anyway, so I guess that’s not an issue.