Bug 412921 - Provide wildcard for all supertypes of a type
Summary: Provide wildcard for all supertypes of a type
Status: NEW
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Product: AspectJ
Classification: Tools
Component: Compiler (show other bugs)
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Hardware: All All
: P3 enhancement (vote)
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Reported: 2013-07-14 11:26 EDT by Christian Schulze CLA
Modified: 2013-07-14 11:26 EDT (History)
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Description Christian Schulze CLA 2013-07-14 11:26:39 EDT 
When defining a pointcut we can match a type or any of its subtype using the "+" wildcard, e.g.

  pointcut something() : call(* SomeType+.*(..));

It would also be great to match all super-types of a certain type using for instance another wildcard "-", e.g.

  pointcut something() : handler(MyException-);

This would allow us to match all catch clauses that handle the exception.