Spring AOP pointcut with one certain argument

Question

I need to create an aspect that I find hard to describe, so let me point out the ideas:

• any method within the package (or any subpackage) of com.x.y...
• one method argument is an implementation of an interface javax.portlet.PortletRequest
• there may me more arguments in the method
• they may be in any order

I need a pointcut and an "around" advice with the PortletRequest given

Currently I have smt like:

@Pointcut("execution(* com.x.y..*.*(PortletRequest,..)) && args(request,..)")
public void thePointcut(PortletRequest request) {
}


@Around("thePointcut(request)")
    public Object theAdvice(ProceedingJoinPoint joinPoint, PortletRequest request) {
...

and receive an error:

ERROR 10:47:27.159 [ContainerBackgroundProcessor[StandardEngine[Catalina]]] o.s.web.portlet.DispatcherPortlet - Context initialization failed org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'org.springframework.web.servlet. mvc.HttpRequestHandlerAdapter': Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: w arning no match for this type name: PortletRequest [Xlint:invalidAbsoluteTypeName]

Any help highly appreciated

Kind regards, Dan

UPDATE the method i'm trying to intercept is:

in public class com.x.y.MainClass :

public String mainRender(Model model, RenderRequest request) throws SystemException

in public class com.x.y.asd.HelpClass:

public final void helpAction(ActionRequest request, ActionResponse response, Model model)

Of cource, I want to get the argument that implements PortletRequest, that is RenderRequest from the first method, and ActionRequest from the second.

Regards, Dan

Answer 1

As the error suggests you need to use the fully qualified name of the PortletRequest in the point cut expression - since it is a string the import context is not available during the time of evaluation of the expression.

@Pointcut("execution(* com.x.y..*.*(javax.portlet.PortletRequest.PortletRequest,..)) && args(request,..)")
public void thePointcut(PortletRequest request) {
}

Since you already are selecting the type in the args construct you don't need that in the signature. The following should also work.

@Pointcut("execution(* com.x.y..*.*(..)) && args(request,..)")
public void thePointcut(PortletRequest request) {
}

It is a and boolean operation - i.e., it needs to match the method pattern as well as the args construct.