@args

[MacFlecknoe]

Can someone post a working example of how to use @args in an aspect? I have an annotation that I am trying to use to "mark" certain string arguments as a "customer_id" so that I can perform a security check on them:

@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
public @interface CustomerAnnotation {

	public String name();
	public String value();
}

@Aspect
public class CustomerAspect {

	@Before("execution(* *(@com.example.test.annotation.CustomerAnnotation(*)))")
	private void testPointCut() { // the pointcut signature
		System.out.println("it works!");
	}
}

public class TestCommand {

	public void execute(@CustomerAnnotation(name = "foo", value = "foo") String customer_id) {
		System.out.println("executed");
	}
}

I have tried what seems like a trillion ways to get "it works!" to print out but nothing works :-(

I have also tried this approach to no avail :-/:

@Aspect
public class CustomerAspect {

	@Before("@args(com.example.test.annotation.CustomerAnnotation)")
	private void testPointCut() { // the pointcut signature
		System.out.println("it works!");
	}
}

[MacFlecknoe]

For completenss here is the bean file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans 
	http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd
	http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-2.0.xsd">
	
	<aop:aspectj-autoproxy/>
	<bean 
		id="aspect" 
		class="com.example.test.aspect.CustomerAspect" />
	<bean 
		name="command" 
		class="com.example.test.TestCommand"/>
</beans>