Disabling certain aspects during unit test runs

Question

I have integration tests (load context) and unit tests running together. My code does aspectj compile time weaving using spring.

My problem is that my declared advi

Answer 1

The answer is simple: You want to use an if() pointcut expression.

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Update (after the question has also been updated): The originally provided link above should contain enough information, but for what it is worth, a short explanation and a simple example:

An if() pointcut is a static aspect method returning a boolean. If the return value is true, it means that any combined pointcut like myPointcut() && if() matches as long as myPointcut() matches. For a return value of false the whole combined pointcut does not match, effectively deactivating any advice connected to the pointcut.

So what can you do in a static if() pointcut?

• evaluate a static boolean member of some tool class like TestMode.ACTIVE which is only true during unit or integration testing
• evaluate an environment variable which is only set during testing
• evaluate a Java system property which is only set during testing
• and many more things

If you want to do something fancier (and trickier) and performance is not so important, you can also try to dynamically determine whether the auto-wired aspect member variable equals null or not and only activate your pointcuts if the injected object is actually present. The only problem here is how to determine a member variable from a static method. I have no idea about Spring AOP, but in plain AspectJ there is the helper class Aspects with several overloaded methods named aspectOf(..). Assuming that your aspect is instantiated as a singleton, you could do something like this:

@Pointcut("if()")
public static boolean isActive() {
    return Aspects.aspectOf(PerformanceMonitorAspect.class).eventJournalService != null;
}

// ...

@AfterReturning(pointcut = "isActive() && anyPublicMethod() && inService() && @annotation(eventJournal) && args(entity,..)", returning = "id")
// ...

@AfterThrowing(pointcut = "isActive() && anyPublicMethod() && inService() && @annotation(eventJournal) && args(entity,..)", throwing="ex")
// ...