Java Aspect-Oriented Programming with Annotations

Question

In a post entitled \"AOP Fundamentals\", I asked for a King\'s English explanation of what AOP is, and what it does. I received some very helpful answers and links

Answer 1

Here's my contribution to this very useful post.

We will take a very simple example: we need to take action on some methods' processing. They are annotated with custom annotations, which contain data to handle. Given this data we want to raise an exception or let the process continue like the method was not annotated.

The Java code for defining our aspect:

package com.example;

public class AccessDeniedForCustomAnnotatedMethodsAspect {

public Object checkAuthorizedAccess(ProceedingJoinPoint proceedingJointPoint)
throws Throwable {

    final MethodSignature methodSignature = (MethodSignature) proceedingJointPoint
                                            .getSignature();

    // how to get the method name
    final String methodName = methodSignature
                                            .getMethod()
                                            .getName();

    // how to get the parameter types
    final Class[] parameterTypes = methodSignature
                                            .getMethod()
                                            .getParameterTypes();

    // how to get the annotations setted on the method
    Annotation[] declaredAnnotations = proceedingJointPoint
                                            .getTarget()
                                            .getClass()
                                            .getMethod(methodName, parameterTypes)
                                            .getDeclaredAnnotations();

    if (declaredAnnotations.length > 0) {

        for (Annotation declaredAnnotation : Arrays.asList(declaredAnnotations)) {

            // I just want to deal with the one that interests me
            if(declaredAnnotation instanceof CustomAnnotation) {

                // how to get the value contained in this annotation 
                (CustomAnnotation) declaredAnnotation).value()

                if(test not OK) {
                    throw new YourException("your exception message");
                }

                // triggers the rest of the method process
                return proceedingJointPoint.proceed();
           }
        }
    }
}

The xml configuration :

Hope it helps !