Asynchronous Makeover - NLog Edition

I just checked in code to enable asynchronous execution of wrappers in NLog. This is the last big architectural change before bug-fixing and stabilization for 2.0 release.

New features

• Exceptions thrown from wrappers such as AsyncTargetWrapper, BufferingTargetWrapper, AspNetBufferingTargetWrapper are now handled as opposed to being swallowed.
• LogReceiverWebServiceTarget now handles asynchronous exceptions.
• Exceptions from batch-aware targets are now handled for each item separately. It means that if you write 100 messages to a BufferedWrapper which wraps File target and one of those file writes fails, you will get 99 successes and 1 failure as opposed to one massive failure which no wrapper can reasonably handle. The same thing applies to email, etc.

There has been a small change to the design described in the last post. Asynchronous continuations are represented as delegates instead of interface. It makes makes it much easier to use ad-hoc continuations in code without sacrificing composability.

Downloads

The source code is available in GitHub repository. I’ve published a private build from the master branch: http://nlog-project.org/public/asyncpreview1/.

I would appreciate people giving this build a spin and reporting any anomalies. Given the scope of changes and lack of unit tests in some areas I expect many things to be broken, so any usage in production is highly discouraged.