passing something in aop from advice to target

[casaloco]

Can i pass data from my advice to my target and vice versa - or should i not be using aop for this

I want to wrap a method with some logging statements, but those logging statements need a transactionId that was prepared earlier.

How to i get the transactionId to the advice?

Thanks
Dave

[oleg.zhurakousky]

If such transaction ID is passed as method parameter to a target method then yes you can intercept the arguments:

@Before(. . .your pointcut . .)
public void fooAdvice(JoinPoint jPoint){
     Object[] arguments = jPoint.getArgs();
     . . . . . . . . . . .
}

You can also bind parameters to a strong types (read chapter 6, 7 of reference manual for more details on Spring AOP)

If, however, such transaction id is not passed as argument to a method, but is an instance variable of a calling class, then you can use AspectJ call pointcut expression to access callers context.

[casaloco]

You see thats the problem.

I dont want to pass transactionId in the parameter list, as it is generated in the aspect.

What happens is, i have a class with lots of methods that calls a web service. I wrap these methods using AOP and in the aspect it calls a stored procedure to generate a transactionId. However, the call to the web service also needs this transactionId - so i need to get this Id back into the method that is being called.

I could add it as a parameter, but then the API to the class suggests that this id should be passed when the method is called - but i wont have it at that point, so i would have to call it will null as the id, until the aspect filled in the details - i dont really want to do that.

Any ideas or suggestions on how to work around this? Maybe its not possible.

[casaloco]

I tried delegating the call inside the class, but then spring seems to ignore the aop on it: eg:

//This is the public api method...
 public AvailableMoneyWSResultTO getTheMoney(PlayerTO playerTO, PokerTableTO pokerTableTO) throws BrokerUnavailableException {
     return getAvailableMoney(playerTO, pokerTableTO, null);
        
}

//This method makes the call and is configured to be wrapped by AOP
//But spring is ingoring this.
private AvailableMoneyWSResultTO getAvailableMoney(PlayerTO playerTO, PokerTableTO pokerTableTO, BrokerTransactionID id) throws BrokerUnavailableException {
      
....//implementation here


}

[bdangubic]

calls inside the class are not going through the proxy and are therefore not advised...