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Lakshya Sharma
Lakshya Sharma

Reputation: 85

Can I declare advice for surrounding an advice itself in aop java?

I have made an annotation(@MethodLogger) and written an aspect over it which basically logs the timing of the method and keep storing it. So on any method on which i put that annotation it works fine But in a special use case I need to monitor an advice itself:

eg:

@MethodLogger
@Around("some function specified")
public Object method(ProceedingJoinPoint pjp) throws Throwable{


// code here

}

But this thing does not works. It never invokes my annotations aspect.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 242

Answers (1)

kriegaex
kriegaex

Reputation: 67317

This does not work in Spring AOP, as is documented here:

Advising aspects with other aspects?

In Spring AOP, it is not possible to have aspects themselves be the target of advice from other aspects. The @Aspect annotation on a class marks it as an aspect, and hence excludes it from auto-proxying.

If you want to do this, you need to activate full AspectJ via LTW in Spring. Then you can target advices directly if you know their method name. There even is a special pointcut designator adviceexecution() if you generally want to limit pointcut matching to advice execution or exclude the latter from matching via !adviceexecution(). For more details please check the AspectJ documentation.

Upvotes: 2

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