Spring AOP pointcut with one certain argument

Question

I need to create an aspect that I find hard to describe, so let me point out the ideas:

• any method within the package (or any subpackage) of com.x.y...
• on

Answer 1

As the error suggests you need to use the fully qualified name of the PortletRequest in the point cut expression - since it is a string the import context is not available during the time of evaluation of the expression.

@Pointcut("execution(* com.x.y..*.*(javax.portlet.PortletRequest.PortletRequest,..)) && args(request,..)")
public void thePointcut(PortletRequest request) {
}

Since you already are selecting the type in the args construct you don't need that in the signature. The following should also work.

@Pointcut("execution(* com.x.y..*.*(..)) && args(request,..)")
public void thePointcut(PortletRequest request) {
}

It is a and boolean operation - i.e., it needs to match the method pattern as well as the args construct.