Added a sample of hierachical property expressions in WorkerServiceDemo

Author: ckadluba

sample/WorkerServiceDemo/Program.cs

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+using System;
 using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;
 using Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting;
 using Serilog;
@@ -8,6 +9,7 @@ public static class Program
     {
         public static void Main(string[] args)
         {
+            //Serilog.Debugging.SelfLog.Enable(Console.Error);
             CreateHostBuilder(args).Build().Run();
         }
 

sample/WorkerServiceDemo/Structured.cs

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+namespace WorkerServiceDemo
+{
+    internal class Structured
+    {
+        public string Name { get; set; }
+    }
+}

sample/WorkerServiceDemo/Worker.cs

@@ -19,6 +19,14 @@ protected override async Task ExecuteAsync(CancellationToken stoppingToken)
         {
             _logger.LogInformation("Worker started");
 
+            // Logging child property Name of structured object structured
+            // to a separate column according to configuration in AddictionalColumns in appsettings.json
+            var structured = new Structured
+            {
+                Name = "Structured Subproperty Value"
+            };
+            _logger.LogInformation("{@Structured} {@Scalar}", structured, "Scalar Value");
+
             while (!stoppingToken.IsCancellationRequested)
             {
                 _logger.LogInformation("Worker running at: {time}. CustomProperty1: {CustomProperty1}",

sample/WorkerServiceDemo/appsettings.json

@@ -31,6 +31,11 @@
                 "columnName": "AdditionalColumn1",
                 "propertyName": "CustomProperty1",
                 "dataType": "12"
+              },
+              {
+                "columnName": "AdditionalColumn2",
+                "propertyName": "Structured.Name",
+                "dataType": "12"
               }
             ]
           },