I have a custom annotation as follows:
@Inherited @Target({ElementType.TYPE, ElementType.METHOD}) @Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME) public @interface MyCustomAnnotation { } In Spring XML configuration I have the following:
<aop:pointcut id="fooPointcut" expression="@annotation(com.foo.blah.MyCustomAnnotation)"/> This will only match on method annotations. How do I tweak the spel to also capture type/class annotations?
Use @within(com.foo.blah.MyCustomAnnotation) to
limit matching to join points within types that have the given annotation
A combined pointcut expression would become:
@annotation(com.foo.blah.MyCustomAnnotation) || @within(com.foo.blah.MyCustomAnnotation) See Join Point Matching based on Annotations in the AspectJ 5 Developer's Notebook for further reference. Also note, that Spring's AOP doesn't support full AspectJ pointcuts, only a limited subset.
Also note that @annotation(com.foo.blah.MyCustomAnnotation) in AspectJ would match
all join points where the subject of the join point has the given annotation
meaning that it would match method-execution as well as method-call. In Spring AOP it only matches method-execution though, but it's better to write pointcut expressions that are valid in a broader scope as well, so don't forget to use an execution(...) pointcut too to restrict the pointcut.
