So, What you think Andy? Is there a chance to implement this feature?
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Henrique Rebêlo <h...@cin.ufpe.br> wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> Thanks for answering! That's good see the support for the classical
> syntax... but the @annotation style need to be updated... I'm not talking
> about if pointcuts. See bellow:
>
> public interface I {
> @Pointcut("execution( * *(..))")
> public static void pc(){}
>
> }
>
> We both know that interfaces now support static methods and we also know
> that the above pointcut (which does not include an if pointcut) is valid if
> declared within a class, but it's forbidden within an interface... the
> compiler says the following:
>
> "pointcuts can only be declared in a class or an aspect"
>
> cheers
>
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Andy Clement <andrew.clem...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Well, we do already support pointcut declarations in interfaces:
>>
>> interface I {
>> pointcut p(): execution(* main(..));
>> }
>>
>> aspect X {
>> before(): I.p() {
>> System.out.println(">>");
>> }
>> }
>>
>> public class Code {
>> public static void main(String[] argv) {
>> }
>> }
>>
>> But I suppose if you especially mean annotation style pointcuts in
>> interfaces (as in your example if() pointcut). We certainly could improve
>> the story here.
>>
>> cheers,
>> Andy
>>
>> On Jun 12, 2015, at 6:34 PM, Henrique Rebêlo <h...@cin.ufpe.br> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Andy and all,
>>
>> I was wondering that now AspectJ should support pointcut declarations in
>> interfaces. New features in Java 8 include static method declarations or
>> default method declarations in an interface. Hence, I believe to make the
>> AspectJ language more orthogonal and symmetric, we should consider to have
>> pointcut declarations in aspects, classes and also interfaces.
>>
>> I think that one design decision that is forbidding pointcuts on
>> interfaces is that before we couldn't write methods with bodies in
>> interfaces, thus avoiding the use of the main design (specially in @AspectJ
>> where we need method bodies for If pointcuts)...
>>
>> What you think? This is just an advice (not AspectJ advice :-) to make
>> the AspectJ sync with Java.
>>
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>> Henrique Rebelo
>> http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~hemr
>> Informatics Center, UFPE, Brazil
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