Spring AOP Pointcut with internal method call.

[markyjames81]

Hello,

I have defined the following pointcut:

<aop:config>
<aopointcut id="relationshipGetRelatedPeoplePointCut"
expression="execution(* uk.co.bbc.opensocial.core.service.RelationshipServ ice.getRelatedPeople(..))" />
<aop:advisor advice-ref="relationshipMemCacheInterceptor"
pointcut-ref="relationshipGetRelatedPeoplePointCut" />
</aop:config>

This works fine for methods called outside the actual class but when i call:

this.getRelatedPeople from inside the RelationshipService class the pointcut is not executed. This class is initialized in Spring so i expected everything to work properly.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Mark.

[bdangubic]

Spring AOP is proxy based, can't advice on internal method calls, call has to be done on proxy for AOP to work. It's all in the documentation....

[denis.zhdanov]

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This works fine for methods called outside the actual class but when i call:

this.getRelatedPeople from inside the RelationshipService class the pointcut is not executed. This class is initialized in Spring so i expected everything to work properly.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Mark.

That is explained in details here