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Publish the specified log `record` with the given `context`&period;

== Synopsis

Declared in `&lt;ball&lowbar;fileobserver&period;h&gt;`

[source,cpp,subs="verbatim,replacements,macros,-callouts"]
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virtual
void
publish(
    xref:BloombergLP/ball/Record.adoc[Record] const& record,
    xref:BloombergLP/ball/Context.adoc[Context] const& context) override;
----

== Description

Process the specified log `record` having the specified publishing `context` by writing `record` and `context` to the current log file if file logging is enabled for this file observer, and to `stdout` if the severity of `record` is at least as severe as the value returned by `stdoutThreshold`&period;

DEPRECATED&colon; Do not use&period;

== Parameters

[cols="1,4"]
|===
| Name| Description
| *record*
| log record to publish
| *context*
| publication context for `record`
|===


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