From: Eric Tanter <etanter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: December 12, 2008 3:07:30 GMT-03:00
To: aspectj-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [aspectj-users] Object Graph using aspectj
Reply-To: aspectj-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
On Dec 12, 2008, at 14:58 , Andy Clement wrote:
If you are using this()/target() to bind context, be aware that
they will not match in a static context (this() wont match when the
join point occurs within a static method for example, and there is
no target() if a call is to a static method). In these cases you
need two sets of pointcuts, one set to handle the static case and
one to handle the non-static case.
Just wondering:
Why not following Java's way of dealing with the fact that classes
are not true objects? ie. one uses null for the this object in a
reflective static method invocation -- so this()/target() could
expose null, no?
That would avoid this kind of ad-hoc non-uniformity. It is quite odd
that just by exposing context, one needs to double his pointcut
definitions.
(of course a nicer alternative would be to really pass the class
object as being the target/this, but that may be too much to ask
for ;)).
-- Éric_______________________________________________
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