@args(some.cool.Annotation) doesn't work at all

[born]

Hi there,

i googled much and have searched here either but didn't found a solution yet, maybe some aop expert could help me out.

I have a joinpoint with @args(some.cool.Annotation) for calling an advice for every Method with a parameter, which is annotated by @Annotation. But this doesn't work... I'm also stumbling about the definition with "a single parameter"... I tested it against a method which has really only one parameter (public void xyz(@Annotation String myParam)) with this annotation but the aspect isn't called.

So how can I do that? I helped myself with a self built AspectJExpressionPointcut and a specialized matcher, looking for the given annotation in the parameterAnnotations array - but @args would be much more readable...

TIA
born

[JasonSheedy]

I have the same problem. I was able to create a poincut that matches any annotated arguments, but I cannot access the annotation value inside my Advice or get the @args() expression to work. I've tried many diffrent permutations of this, but nothing seems to work. Did you make any progress?

My test class is as follows:

public class RestrictionTestImpl implements IRestrictionTest {

		public void test1(@Restricted("blah") Contact contact){
			System.out.println("executing test1()");
		}

}

==This works==

@Aspect
public class RestrictionAdvice {
  @Pointcut("execution(* *(.., @my.package.security.Restricted (*), ..))")
  private void pc1(){}

  @Around("pc1() && args(contact)")
  public Object testAdvice1(ProceedingJoinPoint pjp) throws Throwable {
	System.out.println("applied testAdvice1");
	return pjp.proceed();
  }
}

==This doesn't work==

The advice is not called when including @args(anno), but works fine if I remove that and the Restricted param.

@Aspect
public class RestrictionAdvice2 {
  @Pointcut("execution(* my.test.test1(..))")
  private void pc2(){}

  @Around("pc2() && @args(anno)")
  public Object testAdvice2(ProceedingJoinPoint pjp, Restricted anno) throws Throwable {
	System.out.println("applied testAdvice2");
        System.out.println("annotation value: " + anno.value());
	return pjp.proceed();
  }
}