Question

I am trying to define a pointcut whose advice will run when method from a Spring Data JPA repository is invoked.

Here is my anonymous pointcut together with the inline advice (from PliEventManagerAspect):

after(Pli pli) returning: (execution(* org.springframework.data.repository.CrudRepository+.save(Pli)) && args(pli)){
    System.out.println("Caught!!!!");   
}

Here the definition for my PliRepository:

public interface PliRepository extends GlobalRepository<Pli, Long>, PliRepositoryCustom {

and PliRepositoryImpl:

public class PliRepositoryImpl extends QueryDslRepositorySupport implements PliRepositoryCustom {

and PliRepositoryCustom:

public interface PliRepositoryCustom {

and lastly GlobalRepository:

@NoRepositoryBean
public interface GlobalRepository<T, ID extends Serializable> extends JpaRepository<T, ID> {

I have also set the javaagent command line arg. And I have the following aop.xml:

<!DOCTYPE aspectj PUBLIC
"-//AspectJ//DTD//EN"
"http://www.eclipse.org/aspectj/dtd/aspectj.dtd">
<aspectj>
    <weaver options="-verbose">
        <include within="org.springframework.data.repository..*"/>
    </weaver>
    <aspects>
        <aspect name="trc.suivi.aspects.PliEventManagerAspect" />
    </aspects>
</aspectj>

The above advice, which is supposed to run in LTW since it is advising a class in a jar, is not run at all… I am sure I must make some mistake in the pointcut definition. Can anyone please help?

Answer 1

I changed to the following configuration:

aop.xml:

<!DOCTYPE aspectj PUBLIC
"-//AspectJ//DTD//EN"
"http://www.eclipse.org/aspectj/dtd/aspectj.dtd">
<aspectj>
    <weaver options="-verbose"></weaver>
    <aspects>
        <aspect name="trc.suivi.aspects.PliEventManagerAspect" />
    </aspects>
</aspectj>

Thus the weaver scans all classes.

And PliEventManagerAspect.aj:

after(Pli pli) returning: (execution(* org.springframework.data.repository.CrudRepository+.save(*)) && args(pli)){
        log.debug("Caught!!!!");  
    }

It now works (thanks to Marten from Spring Forums).