[aspectj-users] How? Reflective access on a private method introduced by

[Thomas Wieger <thomas.wieger@xxxxxx>]

Hello!

I'm just wondering, how i could invoke a private method introduced by an inter-type declaration via java reflection (method#invoke(...)) using the aspectj runtime infrastructure, possibly the AjTypeSystem.

What i want to do is something like this. Suppose i have a class Person, which looks like this:

class Person {
   private String name;
}

now i declare an inter-type:

privileged aspect Person_IDT {
   private String Person.getName()  {
       return name;
   }
}

now i would like to do something like this:

Method readMethod = Person.class.getDeclaredMethod("getName");
readMethod.setAccessible(true);
readMethod.invoke(aTarget);

Actually i know, that i won't find the method in this way, because AspectJ mangles the name to something beginning with "ajc$interMethodDispatch2$". But my hope was, that somewhere in the aspectj runtime, there would be some way to achieve something like previously described. Unfortunately i haven't found a way.

I would be happy, if you could help me.

best regards,

Thomas