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Publish the specified log `record` with the given `context`.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<ball_fileobserver.h>`

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virtual
void
publish(
    xref:bsl/shared_ptr-0a.adoc[bsl::shared_ptr<Record const>] const& record,
    xref:BloombergLP/ball/Context.adoc[Context] const& context) override;
----

== Description

Process the record referenced by the specified `record` shared pointer having the specified publishing `context` by writing the 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`.

== Parameters

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


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