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using System;
using System.Collections.Specialized;
using IBatisNet.Common.Logging.Impl;

namespace IBatisNet.Common.Logging
{
	/// <summary>
	/// Defines the members that logging implementations must implement.
	/// </summary>
	/// <remarks>
	/// Classes that implement this interface may optional implement a constructor that accepts 
	/// a <see cref="NameValueCollection" /> which will contain zero or more user supplied configuration
	/// properties.
	/// <para>
	/// The IBatisNet.Common assembly ships with the following built-in <see cref="ILoggerFactoryAdapter" /> implementations:
	/// </para>
	///	<list type="table">
	///	<item><term><see cref="ConsoleOutLoggerFA" /></term><description>Writes output to Console.Out</description></item>
	///	<item><term><see cref="TraceLoggerFA" /></term><description>Writes output to the System.Diagnostics.Trace sub-system</description></item>
	///	<item><term><see cref="NoOpLoggerFA" /></term><description>Ignores all messages</description></item>
	///	</list>
	/// </remarks>
	public interface ILoggerFactoryAdapter 
	{
		/// <summary>
		/// Get a <see cref="ILog" /> instance by type.
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="type"></param>
		/// <returns></returns>
		ILog GetLogger( Type type );

		/// <summary>
		/// Get a <see cref="ILog" /> instance by name.
		/// </summary>
		/// <param name="name"></param>
		/// <returns></returns>
		ILog GetLogger( string name );	

	}
}