[aspectj-users] Slow if()

[Marijn Meijles <marijn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi!

I have a problem with my around advice. The advice itself is really  
slow because it does all kind of reflection stuff and needs access to   
this (the current aspected instance). However, it should only run  
about 1% of the time and that depends   on the return value of a  
getter on this. Now my question is: how do I tell AspectJ to only run  
the advice and do all kinds of  time consuming stuff if the value from  
the getter is not null?

I tried a pointcut with "... && this(entity) && if()" whereby the  
method body returns "entity.getParent() != null" but this doesn't  
help, probably because the ProceedingJoinPoint is created for the  
@Pointcut method as well.

Any help would  be greatly appreciated.
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Marijn
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