[aspectj-users] pertypewithin and getWithinType(Name)

[Manuel Menezes de Sequeira <Manuel.Sequeira@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I'm developing an aspect with an advice requiring fast access to a list 
of methods of a class with a certain annotation. The purpose of the 
advice is to call these methods in sequence using reflection. In order 
to speed things up (or maybe not!), I thought that using the 
pertypewithin instantiation model might be a good idea. Each instance of 
the aspect would have a list containing the methods belonging to the 
associated type and annotated with the required annotation. I order to 
avoid using both tests (for lazy insertion of the methods into the list) 
and reflection during advice execution, it would be nice to be able to 
use the aspect constructor to insert the methods into list. Hence, I 
would like to somehow get the class with which the aspect being 
constructed is associated. As far as I understood from the discussion in 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=123423, the closest thing 
to what I need is getWithinTypeName(), which furthermore is only 
available for annotation style aspects. Am I right? Does my case apply 
to Andy's comment that he "[...] will do the Aspects work if someone 
needs it"? ;-) Or is there some workaround I'm not aware of?

Thanks in advance,

Manuel

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