Re: [aspectj-users] Help with defining a point cut

[Jochen Wuttke <jochen.wuttke@xxxxxx>]

On Apr 26, 2009, at 6:55 PM, elad sofer wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> First i apologize if this kind of question have been asked in the  
> past, if
> it was i could not find it.
>
> I am a newbie to AspectJ and the problem we are trying to solve is  
> this:
> There is a legacy code that we want to be able to connect to an  
> automatic
> testing application (ROBOT).
>
> This framework requires (recommended at least) that every swing  
> component
> has the name attibute set.
> I am looking for a way to do this with an aspect, that will "catch"  
> the
> swing object at some phase and call the setName method.

Catching the object at some phase, I'd recommend the constructor. So  
something like:

after (Component c) returning:  
execution( javax.swing.Component.new(..)) && this(c) {
	c.setName( <put your desired name here> );
}

Not sure if this() works with constructors, but something like that  
should do the trick.
How to generate the name passed to setName() is up to you, since I  
don't quite understand your requirements there.

Jochen