public void AddLogItem(LogItem log)
{
// since we are using EF to add to the log we need ot avoid
// logging EF related things, otherwise every time we log we generate more log events
// continuously
// might be better to use the normal mssql ado log repository instead
// need to decouple logging repos from core repos
if (log.Logger.Contains("EntityFrameworkCore"))
{
return;
}
var logItem = LogItem.FromLogItem(log);
dbContext.Add(logItem);
dbContext.SaveChanges();
// learned by experience for this situation we need to create transient instance of the dbcontext
// for logging because the dbContext we have passed in is scoped to the request
// and it causes problems to save changes on the context multiple times during a request
// since we may log mutliple log items in a given request we need to create the dbcontext as needed
// we can still use the normal dbContext for querying
//dbContext.Add(logItem);
//dbContext.SaveChanges();
//return logItem.Id;
}
