Spring AOP - After Advice
Published in:2015-06-06 | Category: Backend
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Advice is the implementation of the cross-cutting functionality. An Adivce provides the code for implementation of the service.

There are four types of Advice:

  • Before Advice
  • After Advice
  • Around Advice
  • Throws Advice After Advice is same as Before Advice. But in order to create our after advice in spring, our class should implement an interface called AfterReturningAdvice, this interface is given in org.springframework.aop.* package. And we need to override a method given by this interface called afterReturning().
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public class MyAfterAdvice implements AfterReturningAdvice {

@Override
public void afterReturning(Object returnValue, Method method,
Object[] args, Object target) throws Throwable {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub

}

}

The returnValuef is the return value of the logic method, we can use it to access the return of the logic function. The method parameter is the logic method, we can use getName() to access the name of method. And the args parameter is arguments of logic method.

Let’s see full example.

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package spring.test.aop;

public interface MyLogicInterface {
int add(int a, int b);

int subtract(int a, int b);
}

In this interface, we changed the method’s signature, we have return value for both two method.

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package spring.test.aop;

public class MyLogicClass implements MyLogicInterface {

@Override
public int add(int a, int b) {
return a + b;
}

@Override
public int subtract(int a, int b) {
return a - b;
}

}

In MyLogicClass, we implemented the two methods add and subtract, and return the value.

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package spring.test.aop;

import java.lang.reflect.Method;

import org.springframework.aop.AfterReturningAdvice;

public class MyAfterAdvice implements AfterReturningAdvice {

@Override
public void afterReturning(Object returnValue, Method method,
Object[] args, Object target) throws Throwable {

String message = String.format(
"The result from method %s(%s, %s) is: %s", method.getName(),
args[0], args[1], returnValue);

System.out.println(message);

}

}

We print all the messages of the logic method in our After Advice, include method name, the return value of method, the arguments etc.

Okay, let’s see our spring config file.

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<!DOCTYPE beans PUBLIC "-//SPRING//DTD BEAN 2.0//EN"
"http://www.springframework.org/dtd/spring-beans-2.0.dtd">

<beans>
<bean id="myAfterAdvice" class="spring.test.aop.MyAfterAdvice"/>

<bean id="myLogicClass" class="spring.test.aop.MyLogicClass"/>

<bean id="proxyFactoryBean" class="org.springframework.aop.framework.ProxyFactoryBean">
<property name="proxyInterfaces" value="spring.test.aop.MyLogicInterface"/>
<property name="interceptorNames">
<list>
<value>myAfterAdvice</value>
</list>
</property>
<property name="target" ref="myLogicClass"/>
</bean>
</beans>

It is same with last spring config file of Before After. We just use MyAfterAdvice to instead of MyBeforeAdvice.

To make this application run, we should read spring config file.

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package spring.test.aop;

import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;

public class App {

private static ApplicationContext applicationContext;

public static void main(String[] args) {
applicationContext = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("springConfig.xml");
MyLogicInterface myLogicInterface = (MyLogicInterface)applicationContext.getBean("proxyFactoryBean");

myLogicInterface.add(10, 20);
myLogicInterface.subtract(10, 5);
}

}

The result of the application executioin.

The result from method add(10, 20) is: 30
The result from method subtract(10, 5) is: 5
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