[aspectj-users] Initialization Join Points for Interfaces ..

["Debasish Ghosh" <ghosh.debasish@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi -

I have a question regarding initialization pointcuts for interfaces.

Suppose I have an initialization pointcut as : 

initialization(Interface+.new(..)), where Interface is a Java interface and I have a class as :

public class Implementation implements Interface {
    // ...
}

In this case I get 2 initialization joinpoints - one for the interface and the other for the implementation. In case, in the after-returning advice, I would like to ignore the interface specific one, what is the best practice for doing this ? I do not want to introduce the implementation class within the advice, since I can have multiple implementations of this interface. I came up with the following ..

after(Interface client) returning :
        clientCreation(client) {
        if ("org.dg.biz.Interface".equals(
                thisJoinPoint.getSignature().getDeclaringTypeName())) {
            return;
        }
        // .. rest of the advice
}

However, I do not like this string comparison. Is there a better way to achieve this ?

Thanks.
- Debasish