Totally unclear what AddLogging actually does

[aaronclawrence]

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Description

Please explain what it actually means to "Adds logging services".
Does it make something available via some interface?

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https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/microsoft.extensions.dependencyinjection.loggingservicecollectionextensions.addlogging?view=net-9.0-pp

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https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet-api-docs/blob/main/xml/Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection/LoggingServiceCollectionExtensions.xml

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[KalleOlaviNiemitalo]

It adds ILoggerFactory, ILogger<>, and IConfigureOptions<LoggerFilterOptions> as services, in addition to those added by OptionsServiceCollectionExtensions.AddOptions; unless similar services are already in the collection.

It does not add the non-generic ILogger as a service because that wouldn't know the log category… although nowadays that could perhaps be set up as a keyed service, with either the category name or a Type as the key.