Spring AOP - XML Schema | Andrewsy's Space

Previously, we created AOP with Spring framework via implementing interface of spring AOP. And now we can use XML Schema to achieve it. We need to add below AspectJ libraries to our project. So downloading and adding them to the CLASSPATH of application, and also we can use the maven to build our application.

aspectjrt.jar
aspectjweaver.jar

aopalliance.jar Let’s see our pom.xml

pom.xml

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
	<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
	<groupId>Spring-AOP-XML-Schema</groupId>
	<artifactId>Spring-AOP-XML-Schema</artifactId>
	<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
	<build>
		<sourceDirectory>src</sourceDirectory>
		<plugins>
			<plugin>
				<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
				<version>3.1</version>
				<configuration>
					<source>1.7</source>
					<target>1.7</target>
				</configuration>
			</plugin>
		</plugins>
	</build>
	<dependencies>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
			<artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
			<version>4.1.6.RELEASE</version>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
			<artifactId>spring-core</artifactId>
			<version>4.1.6.RELEASE</version>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
			<artifactId>spring-beans</artifactId>
			<version>4.1.6.RELEASE</version>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
			<artifactId>spring-aop</artifactId>
			<version>4.1.6.RELEASE</version>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
			<artifactId>aspectjweaver</artifactId>
			<version>1.8.6</version>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
			<artifactId>aspectjrt</artifactId>
			<version>1.8.6</version>
		</dependency>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>aopalliance</groupId>
			<artifactId>aopalliance</artifactId>
			<version>1.0</version>
		</dependency>
	</dependencies>
</project>

Okay, so we start to config the AOP with xml schema.

Declaring Aspect:

<aop:config>
	<aop:aspect id="logging" ref="myLogging">
	</aop:aspect>
</aop:config>
	
<bean id="myLogging" class="spring.test.aop.MyLogging" />

Create our service bean called myLogging. this service should be injected before or after in the logic method. And use <aop:aspect> to reference it.

Declaring Pointcut:

<aop:config>
	<aop:aspect id="logging" ref="myLogging">
		<aop:pointcut id="saveDataPointcut" expression="execution(* spring.test.aop.*.saveData(..))" />
			<aop:pointcut id="getDataPointcut" expression="execution(* spring.test.aop.*.getData())"/>
	</aop:aspect>
</aop:config>
	
<bean id="myLogging" class="spring.test.aop.MyLogging" />

<bean id="myData" class="spring.test.aop.MyData" />
```   

Create logic class bean and pointcut with `<aop:pointcut>` , define the expression matcher to match the methods which will be executed with AOP. To see the expression of pointcut, go to [http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/spring-framework-reference/html/aop.html](http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/spring-framework-reference/html/aop.html).

3. Declaring Advice:

``` xml
<aop:config>
	<aop:aspect id="logging" ref="myLogging">
		
		<aop:pointcut id="saveDataPointcut" expression="execution(* spring.test.aop.*.saveData(..))" />
		
		<aop:pointcut id="getDataPointcut" expression="execution(* spring.test.aop.*.getData())"/>
			
		<aop:before method="beforeSaveData" pointcut-ref="saveDataPointcut" />
			
		<aop:after method="afterSaveData" pointcut-ref="saveDataPointcut" />
			
		<aop:before method="beforeGetData" pointcut="execution(* spring.test.aop.MyData.getData())"/>
			
		<aop:after method="afterGetData" pointcut="execution(* spring.test.aop.*.get*())"/>
			
		<aop:after-returning method="afterReturningAdvice"
				pointcut-ref="getDataPointcut" returning="returnValue" />
				
		<aop:after-throwing method="throwingAdvice"
				pointcut="execution(* spring.test.aop.MyData.concatData(String))" throwing="ex" />
	</aop:aspect>
</aop:config>
	
<bean id="myLogging" class="spring.test.aop.MyLogging" />
	
<bean id="myData" class="spring.test.aop.MyData" />

Use <aop:before>, <aop:after>, <aop:after-returning> and <aop:after-throwing> to create each advices. Reference to pointcut bean and appoint which method of service can be injected. Note, for after-returning and after-throwing, we should add attributes returning and throwing to access their variables.

The full configration file is:

springConfig.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd 
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop 
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd ">

	<aop:config>
		<aop:aspect id="logging" ref="myLogging">
		
			<aop:pointcut id="saveDataPointcut" expression="execution(* spring.test.aop.*.saveData(..))" />
			
			<aop:pointcut id="getDataPointcut" expression="execution(* spring.test.aop.*.getData())"/>
			
			<aop:before method="beforeSaveData" pointcut-ref="saveDataPointcut" />
			
			<aop:after method="afterSaveData" pointcut-ref="saveDataPointcut" />
			
			<aop:before method="beforeGetData" pointcut="execution(* spring.test.aop.MyData.getData())"/>
			
			<aop:after method="afterGetData" pointcut="execution(* spring.test.aop.*.get*())"/>
			
			<aop:after-returning method="afterReturningAdvice"
				pointcut-ref="getDataPointcut" returning="returnValue" />
				
			<aop:after-throwing method="throwingAdvice"
				pointcut="execution(* spring.test.aop.MyData.concatData(String))" throwing="ex" />
				
		</aop:aspect>
	</aop:config>
	
	<bean id="myLogging" class="spring.test.aop.MyLogging" />
	
	<bean id="myData" class="spring.test.aop.MyData" />
</beans>

From now, the AOP configration completed. Let’s see our Logging service and Logic class.

MyLogging.java

package spring.test.aop;

public class MyLogging {

	public void beforeSaveData() {
		System.out.println("The Data is going to be saved");
	}

	public void afterSaveData() {
		System.out.println("The Data has been saved");
	}
	
	public void beforeGetData() {
		System.out.println("Ready to get the data");
	}
	
	public void afterGetData() {
		System.out.println("The data has been got");
	}

	public void afterReturningAdvice(Object returnValue) {
		System.out.println(String.format(
				"The return value is: %s ", returnValue.toString()));
	}

	public void throwingAdvice(NullPointerException ex) {
		System.out.println(String.format(
				"Throw exception is: %s", ex.getMessage()));
	}

}

In our Logging service, the afterReturningAdvice and throwingAdvice methods should take returnValue which is Object type and Exception type ex paramters.

MyData.java

package spring.test.aop;

public class MyData {
	public String data;

	public void saveData(String data) {
		System.out.println("Saving the data: " + data);
		this.data = data;
	}

	public String getData() {
		System.out.println("Get the data: " + this.data);
		return this.data;
	}
	
	public void concatData(String data) {
		this.data.concat(data);
	}
}

We use the different pointcut to decide which service method can be injected which logic method.

Finally, let’s get our main class:

App.java

package spring.test.aop;

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

public class App {

	private static ApplicationContext context;

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("springConfig.xml");

		MyData myData = (MyData) context.getBean("myData");

		myData.saveData("This is my data");
		
		System.out.println("-----------------");
		myData.getData();
	}

}

See the output of application:

he Data is going to be saved
Saving the data: This is my data
The Data has been saved
-----------------
Ready to get the data
Get the data: This is my data
The return value is: This is my data 
The data has been got
-----------------
Throw exception is: null
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.lang.String.concat(String.java:1970)
at spring.test.aop.MyData.concatData(MyData.java:17)
at spring.test.aop.MyData$$FastClassBySpringCGLIB$$731fbdfd.invoke(<generated>)
at org.springframework.cglib.proxy.MethodProxy.invoke(MethodProxy.java:204)
at org.springframework.aop.framework.CglibAopProxy$CglibMethodInvocation.invokeJoinpoint(CglibAopProxy.java:717)
at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:157)
at org.springframework.aop.aspectj.AspectJAfterThrowingAdvice.invoke(AspectJAfterThrowingAdvice.java:58)
at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:179)
at org.springframework.aop.interceptor.ExposeInvocationInterceptor.invoke(ExposeInvocationInterceptor.java:92)
at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:179)
at org.springframework.aop.framework.CglibAopProxy$DynamicAdvisedInterceptor.intercept(CglibAopProxy.java:653)
at spring.test.aop.MyData$$EnhancerBySpringCGLIB$$5a76fbda.concatData(<generated>)
at spring.test.aop.App.main(App.java:21)