Spring. Registering Aspect with @Bean

Question

I need some help with creating Aspect bean.

I have module A, B... and module starter-x. I have a couple of Aspects declared in module starter-x, and configurations for them(like spring data repository monitoring aspect with configuration annotated with @ConditionalOnClass(Repository.class) etc).

Here's how example configuration looks like

@Configuration
@ConditionalOnClass(Repository.class)
public class RepositoryMonitoringConfiguration {

    @Bean
    @Qualifier("RepositoryCallCounter")
    public DatabaseCallCounter repositoryCounter(){
        return new RepositoryCallCounter();
    }


}

And i have class with @Aspect annotation(but not @Component, when i create bean with @Component not @Configuration, everything is ok)

So my question, is it possible to provide aspect bean in @Configuration class, without @Component annotation on it (I want to create cool starter with auto configuration)

Answer 1

It's possible, you just need to mark the configuration class like this:

@Configuration
@EnableAspectJAutoProxy
@ConditionalOnClass(Repository.class)
public class RepositoryMonitoringConfiguration {

  @Bean
  public DatabaseCallCounter repositoryCounter(){
    return new RepositoryCallCounter();
  }
}