[aspectj-users] Method pattern to match method execution in super class

[Jean-Pierre Bergamin <jpbergamin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello everyone

I'm fighting with spring security and aspectj joinpoints and have no idea why our joinpoint declaration does not match.

We have the following class and interface structure:

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public interface ILookupRepository<T> {

   Iterable<T> findAll();

}

public interface IBaseRepository<T> extends ILookupRepository<T> { }

public abstract class AbstractBaseRepository<T> {

  Iterable<T> findAll();

}

public interface IFooRepository extends IBaseRepository<Foo> { }

public class FooRepository extends AbstractBaseRepository<Foo> implements IFooRepository { }

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I now want to match calls to findAll of IFooRepository and use this _expression_:

execution(* com.example.IFooRepository.findAll(..))

This pattern does not match when calling 

IFooRepository repo = ...

repo.findAll();

The signatures that are found and compared against in SignaturePattern.matches are the following:

Iterable net.junisphere.eranger.domain.internal.neo4j.repositories.AbstractBaseRepository.findAll()

Iterable<IBaseEntity> com.example.IBaseRepository<IBaseEntity>.findAll()

Iterable<IBaseEntity> com.example.ILookupRepository<IBaseEntity>.findAll()

Iterable com.example.ILookupRepository<IBaseEntity>.findAll()

Iterable<net.junisphere.eranger.domain.model.IBaseEntity> com.example.ILookupRepository<IBaseEntity>.findAll()

Iterable com.example.ILookupRepository<IBaseEntity>.findAll()

Any ideas why the IFooRepository is not taken into account, but only IBaseRepository and ILookupRepository?

Best regards,

James