RE: [aspectj-users] Overriding pointcuts

["Ron Bodkin" <rbodkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Savita you can significantly reduce the overhead by dynamically enabling and disabling your aspects. This can be as simple as using the if pointcut like so

 

public aspect FlightRecorder {

    private static boolean enabled; // can be controlled through JMX, for example

 

    public pointcut flightMethod():

        execution(!@PrimitiveDataLoggerAnnotation public * *.Method*(..));  

    private pointcut recordedMethod(): if(enabled) && flightMethod();

    before() : recordedMethod() { … }

    after() : recordedMethod() { … }

}

 

AspectJ constructs join points lazily when they are guarded like this, so you should see the runtime overhead as simply the time for a single (inlined) if test. This is often desirable, especially if you would like to be able to enable and disable recording at runtime. You can also allow more dynamic scoping e.g., by package and class like with logging frameworks, possibly also with a global enabled switch. AspectJ been tuned significantly over the years to support efficiently running when aspects like this are disabled, but certainly you should benchmark the overhead in your case.

 

Ron

 

 

 

 

 

       

 

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From: aspectj-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:aspectj-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chandan, Savita
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 10:22 AM
To: aspectj-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [aspectj-users] Overriding pointcuts

 

Mathew,

Thanks for your response. That's a bummer. Lets look at the problem from a different  vantage point.

 What Iam trying to accomplish here is turn off the flight recorder logging with some configuration, without recompiling. I can do this by turning it off in the flight recorder, but then I will be taking the hit of AspectJ framework ( creating JoinPoints etc), which I dont want.

 

Rephrasing the question, Is it possible to turnoff AspectJ framework in the code without recompiling, by an off/on switch?

 

Thanks,

Savita

 

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From: aspectj-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:aspectj-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Matthew Webster
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 3:18 AM
To: aspectj-users@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [aspectj-users] Overriding pointcuts

Savita,

Unfortunately this won't work because you can only extend abstract aspects so you cannot override the behaviour of an existing woven concrete aspect. You can override a pointcut but only in a sub-aspect:

public abstract aspect AbstractPrimitiveFlightRecorder {

        protected pointcut myMethod() :
                PrimitiveFlightRecorderPointcutLibrary.recordedMethod();

}

public aspect PrimitiveFlightRecorderAspect extends AbstractPrimitiveFlightRecorder
{
        protected pointcut myMethod()
        :   execution(!@PrimitiveDataLoggerAnnotation public * *.Method*(..));  

        before (): myMethod() {
                System.out.println("> PrimitiveFlightRecorderAspect.before() " + thisJoinPoint);
        }
       
        after (): myMethod() {
                System.out.println("< PrimitiveFlightRecorderAspect.before() " + thisJoinPoint);
        }
}

However one solution is to use a separate pointcut library which is used to weave at compile-time:

public aspect PrimitiveFlightRecorderPointcutLibrary {

        protected pointcut recordedMethod() :
                execution(@PrimitiveDataLoggerAnnotation public * *.Method*(..));

}

public aspect PrimitiveFlightRecorderAspect
{
        protected pointcut myMethod() :
                PrimitiveFlightRecorderPointcutLibrary.recordedMethod();

        before (): myMethod() {
                System.out.println("> PrimitiveFlightRecorderAspect.before() " + thisJoinPoint);
        }
       
        after (): myMethod() {
                System.out.println("< PrimitiveFlightRecorderAspect.before() " + thisJoinPoint);
        }
}

Then for LTW substitute an alternative implementation of the library. Because _all_ aspects must be woven, including those woven previously, you will pick up the new pointcut definition. Unfortunately you cannot define pointcut libraries using XML.

Matthew Webster
AOSD Project
Java Technology Centre, MP146
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Email: Matthew Webster/UK/IBM @ IBMGB, matthew_webster@xxxxxxxxxx
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Hi,

I want to override pointcuts inserted in the aspect code during compile, at run time. What would I do to achieve this? If I created a pointcut in aop.xml that contradicts the pointcut inserted in the code, what would happen?

For ex.

In my aspect class
public aspect PrimitiveFlightRecorderAspect
{
       pointcut myMethod():  execution(@ PrimitiveDataLoggerAnnotation public * *.Method*(..)) );

        before (): myMethod() {
       }

        after (): myMethod() {}
}

Now if in the aop.xml if I were to do this. (pardon me for any mistakes in the aop.xml, this is the first time I creating one)  what would happen?

<aspectj>
       <aspects>
               <aspect name="PrimitiveFlightRecorderAspect"/>
                 pointcut myMethod():  execution(! @ PrimitiveDataLoggerAnnotation public * *.Method*(..)) );

        </aspects>
</aspectj>
Thanks,
Savita _______________________________________________
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