Spring AOP point cut for 'nested' annotation

Question

I need to define a point cut which triggers the execution on all methods of a spring service annotated with a custom annotation. The annotation I would like to define the po

Answer 1

I had this exact need in an application. I found this answer, but wasn't satisfied this couldn't be done.

After a bit more searching, I found this cheat sheet for AspectJ/Spring pointcut expressions. The solution in the cheat sheet didn't work exactly as advertised, but I was able to make it work for what I needed.

@Pointcut("within(@(@Annotation *) *)")
public void classAnnotatedWithNestedAnnotationOneLevelDeep() { }

I combined this expression with a @within expression for just the @Annotation to get what I wanted to work.

For method execution:

@Pointcut("execution(@(@com.someorg.SomeAnnotation *) * *(..))")
public void methodAnnotatedWithNestedAnnotationOneLevelDeep() { }

I combined this expression with a @annotation expression for just the @Annotation to get what I wanted to work for methods.