Exception handling through spring AOP + Aspectj

Question

In my project I have a domain layer which is basically POJO and a Spring controller / service layer that is sitting on top of the domain layer. I also have an AOP layer which is sitting between the service and domain.

My domain layer is throwing business exceptions which are now being handled in the service layer.

However I want to change it so that exception thrown from domain layer will be handled in the AOP layer. AOP layer will some kind of error response and send it back to spring controller/ web service layer.

I can create a IBizResponse and make two subclasses/interfaces of it perhaps a SuccessResponse and an ErrorResponse and make my domain layer methods return IBizResponse. However I am not able to figure out how to make AOP return the ErrorResponse object to the service layer.

Answer 1

See After throwing advice section of https://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/4.1.0.RELEASE/spring-framework-reference/htmlsingle/#aop-introduction-defn

After throwing advice runs when a matched method execution exits by throwing an exception. It is declared using the @AfterThrowing annotation:

Examples

import org.aspectj.lang.annotation.Aspect;
import org.aspectj.lang.annotation.AfterThrowing;

@Aspect
public class AfterThrowingExample {

   @AfterThrowing("com.xyz.myapp.SystemArchitecture.dataAccessOperation()")
   public void doRecoveryActions() {
     // ...
    }

}



import org.aspectj.lang.annotation.Aspect;
import org.aspectj.lang.annotation.AfterThrowing;

@Aspect
public class AfterThrowingExample {

    @AfterThrowing(
    pointcut="com.xyz.myapp.SystemArchitecture.dataAccessOperation()",
    throwing="ex")
    public void doRecoveryActions(DataAccessException ex) {
       // ...
     }

}