Ok, I need another pair of eyeballs again. I'm refining my earlier pointcuts one baby step at a time. Now, instead of restricting validation annotations to "javax.validation.constraints..*", I want to allow for any @Constraint annotation, which really means any annotation annotated with @Constraint. For example, for my own @NotEmpty (simple test annotation to test for null or empty String):
======================== import java.lang.annotation.ElementType; import java.lang.annotation.Retention; import java.lang.annotation.RetentionPolicy; import java.lang.annotation.Target; import javax.validation.Constraint; import javax.validation.constraints.NotNull; import javax.validation.constraints.Size; @NotNull @Size(min = 1) @Constraint(validatedBy = {}) @Retention(RetentionPolicy.SOURCE) @Target({ ElementType.FIELD, ElementType.PARAMETER }) public @interface NotEmpty {} ======================== I tried the following, but they only match constraint annotations whose package is "javax.validation.constraints": pointcut executingValidatedConstructorParameters() : execution(*.new(.., @(@javax.validation.Constraint *) (*), ..)); pointcut executingValidatedReturnValue() : execution(@(@javax.validation.Constraint *) !static !void *(..)); pointcut executingValidatedMethodParameters() : execution(!static * *(.., @(@javax.validation.Constraint *) (*), ..)); I just saw this thread saying it's not supported, posted Dec 2010: http://forum.springsource.org/showthread.php?99738-Pointcut-to-match-meta-annotations&p=334966#post334966 Is it still not supported? If not, then I'm surprised that the above aspects are even partially working. Ideally, I'd like to support meta-annnotations, meta-meta-annotations, etc., generally. Is that possible? -matthew -- View this message in context: http://aspectj.2085585.n4.nabble.com/Method-constructor-validation-pointcuts-tp4650536p4650545.html Sent from the AspectJ - users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ aspectj-users mailing list aspectj-users@eclipse.org https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/aspectj-users