How to inject caller into advice?

[MadOtis]

Hello all, I'm new to AOP and I've followed several of the examples and read the docs, but I may not be grasping something fully. Is there a way to inject the caller of a pointcut method into the aspect? For example suppose ClassA.methodA calls ClassB.methodB and methodB is defined as a pointcut (in which case the InterceptorA.doSomething method is defined). Can ClassA (in my understanding, the "caller") get injected into the aspect so I can interrogate some portions or pull attributes out of it in the advice?

FWIW, I'm using the schema approach for context definition and I would have something like this currently:

<aop:pointcut id="pointcutId" expression="execution(* ClassB.methodB(..))"/>

Would changing it to this inject the calling class into the advice?

<aop:pointcut id="pointcutId" expression="execution(* ClassB.methodB(..)) and bean(ClassA)"/>

If so, would it inject the instance of the bean that triggered the pointcut?

Thanks in advance!

[ramnivas]

That is difficult with Spring AOP. If you use AspectJ weaving (where 'call' join point is available) you could do something like:

pointcut callToB(ClassB sb) : call(* ClassB.methodB(..)) && target(cb);

-Ramnivas

[MadOtis]

That's what I was afraid of. Looks like I'll have to refactor all my pointcut enabled classes to extend an abstact class so I can set the values needed in the aspect so I can retrieve them in the called methods. Something I was trying to avoid, but doable.

Thanks for the information!