referencing pointcuts defined in schema

[boutwell]

the AOP docs in the Spring reference say that you can reference XSD-based pointcuts via XML ids, yet if I define two pointcuts, and one references the other via the id, i get an IllegalArgumentException that it cannot find the referenced pointcut (being the mainpoincut).

is this still possible? I must use JDK 1.4 for now, so annotations are not possible.

<aopointcut id="mainpointcut"
expression="target(interface) and
execution(* handleRequest(..))"/>

<aopointcut id="pointcutargs"
expression="mainpointcut() and args(req)"/>



Thanks!

[cepage]

It's working for me. Do you have both aop: pointcut definitions wrapped in a single aop: config declaration?

[boutwell]

yes. they are both in the same config.

the declarations themselves don't error out, but when i apply 'pointcut-ref' on an aspect:

<aop:aspect id="validator"
ref="validatorBean">

<aop:before method="validateRequest"
pointcut-ref="pointcutargs" arg-names="req"/>
</aop:aspect>

then i receive the failure.

the logs aren't telling me anything else.

i tried removing the 'args' expression and arg-names as well. same result.

i'm using RC2 and included jars. has anything changed?

[boutwell]

another thought. do the XSD ID's require any sort of namespace prefixing in order to be found (ala package names0?

[cepage]

i'm using RC2 and included jars. has anything changed?

I am using nightly build, which contain a lot of bugfixes since RC2. It may very well be worth attempting an upgrade.

If that doesn't work, try posting your relevant config, including schema declarations, using the [code] markup so it is readable.