Re: [aspectj-users] Logging variables

[Jochen Wuttke <jochen.wuttke@xxxxxx>]

On Oct 10, 2008, at 2:41 PM, rmahmood wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> i am looking for some way to weave variable assignment statements.
> > > From different discussions it seems that the only possibility is to
> advice Setter methods for member variable assignment.
>
> But what about local variables within a method or assignment to
> a variable by a method return value.
>
> For assignments with late bindings it looks that this is not possible
> with AspectJ as it provides load time weaving.

I'm not sure what you mean by "late bindings". But the problem with AJ  
is, AFAIK, that the names of local variables are not stored in class  
files, i.e. they are not available for weaving. Instead the Java  
compiler assigns them numbers (which show up in the class file for  
LOAD instructions), but since there is no mapping between these  
numbers and the named variables in the source that the AspectJ weaver  
has access to, it is not possible to weave into local variable accesses.

Jochen