Spring AOP After Throwing Advice Example using XML Config

In this spring aop after-throwing advice example with XML configuration, we learn how to use Spring AOP after-throwing advice using <aop:after-throwing/> XML configuration. In Spring AOP, After-throwing Advice to be executed if a method exits by throwing an exception i.e  Any methods configured as After-throwing advice always run immediately after the target methods throws any exception.

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Let’s create a simple spring application and add logging aspect to be invoked on based on pointcuts information passed in <aop:after-throwing/> xml configuration. This example is also available with Java configuration Spring AOP AspectJ @AfterThrowing Annotation Advice Example.

Configuring Spring AOP After Throwing Advice using aop namespace <aop:after-throwing/>

In this example, we are using <aop:*/> namespace for XML configuration. So here we have to add <aop:after-throwing/> aop namespace in our XML configuration file in this example. Let’s see our aop configuration for after advice in this example.

<aop:config>
   <aop:aspect ref="loggingAspect">
     <!-- all public methods with any arguments of any type and any return type of all classes in the com.doj.aopapp.service package -->
     <aop:pointcut expression="execution(* com.doj.aopapp.service.*.*(..))" id="logForAllMethods"/>
     <!-- all public methods whose name are transfer() with taking three arguments of any type and any return type of all classes in the com.doj.aopapp.service package -->
     <aop:pointcut expression="execution(* com.doj.aopapp.service.*.transfer(*,*,*))" id="logForAllTransfer"/>
     <aop:after-throwing method="afterThrowingAdviceForAllMethods" pointcut-ref="logForAllMethods"  throwing="exc"/>
     <aop:after-throwing method="afterThrowingAdviceForTransferMethods" pointcut-ref="logForAllTransfer"  throwing="exc"/>
   </aop:aspect>
</aop:config>

As in above configuration throwing attribute enable to capture thrown exception instance from advised method. Here we have passed exc named parameter which needs to be passed to advice method.

Declaring Pointcut expressions

#1. In First pointcut expression, we have declared after throwing advice, it is valid for all public methods with any number of arguments of any type and any return type, for all classes in the com.doj.aopapp.service package.

<aop:pointcut expression="execution(* com.doj.aopapp.service.*.*(..))" id="logForAllMethods"/>

#2. In Second pointcut expression, we have declared after throwing advice, it is valid for all public methods whose name is transfer() with taking three arguments of any type and any return type, for all classes in the com.doj.aopapp.service package.

<aop:pointcut expression="execution(* com.doj.aopapp.service.*.transfer(*,*,*))" id="logForAllTransfer"/>

Spring AOP After Throwing Advice Example

Let’s create an example for a after throwing advice, using xml configuration using <aop:after-throwing/> namespace.

Spring AOP Maven Dependencies

<properties>
   <spring.version>4.3.7.RELEASE</spring.version>
   <aspectj.version>1.8.9</aspectj.version>
  </properties>
  
  <dependencies>
   <dependency>
         <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
         <artifactId>spring-context</artifactId>
         <version>${spring.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
         <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
         <artifactId>spring-context-support</artifactId>
         <version>${spring.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     <dependency>
         <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
         <artifactId>spring-aop</artifactId>
         <version>${spring.version}</version>
     </dependency>
     
     <dependency>
          <groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
          <artifactId>aspectjrt</artifactId>
          <version>${aspectj.version}</version>
      </dependency>
      <dependency>
          <groupId>org.aspectj</groupId>
          <artifactId>aspectjweaver</artifactId>
          <version>${aspectj.version}</version>
      </dependency>
  </dependencies>

ApplicationContext Configuration file based on XML Config

applicationContext.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
 xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
 xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
  http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop.xsd
  http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd">

 <aop:config>
  <aop:aspect ref="loggingAspect">
   <!-- all public methods with any arguments of any type and any return type of all classes in the com.doj.aopapp.service package -->
   <aop:pointcut expression="execution(* com.doj.aopapp.service.*.*(..))" id="logForAllMethods"/>
   <!-- all public methods whose name are transfer() with taking three arguments of any type and any return type of all classes in the com.doj.aopapp.service package -->
   <aop:pointcut expression="execution(* com.doj.aopapp.service.*.transfer(*,*,*))" id="logForAllTransfer"/>
   <aop:after-throwing method="afterThrowingAdviceForAllMethods" pointcut-ref="logForAllMethods" throwing="exc"/>
   <aop:after-throwing method="afterThrowingAdviceForTransferMethods" pointcut-ref="logForAllTransfer" throwing="exc"/>
  </aop:aspect>
 </aop:config>
 
 <bean id="transferService" class="com.doj.aopapp.service.TransferServiceImpl"/>
 
 <bean id="loggingAspect" class="com.doj.aopapp.aspect.LoggingAspect"/>
</beans>

Target method of Service class on which aspects needs to apply

TransferService.java

/**
 * 
 */
package com.doj.aopapp.service;

/**
 * @author Dinesh.Rajput
 *    
 */
public interface TransferService {
 
 void transfer(String accountA, String accountB, Long amount);
 
 Double checkBalance(String account);
 
 Long withdrawal(String account, Long amount);
 
 void diposite(String account, Long amount);
}

TransferServiceImpl.java

/**
 * 
 */
package com.doj.aopapp.service;

/**
 * @author Dinesh.Rajput
 *
 */
public class TransferServiceImpl implements TransferService {
 
 @Override
 public Double checkBalance(String account) {
  System.out.println("Available balance: 50000");
  return new Double(50000);
 }
 
 @Override
 public void transfer(String accountA, String accountB, Long amount) {
  System.out.println(amount+" Amount trasferring from "+accountA+" to "+accountB);
  throw new NullPointerException("Opps something went wrong!!!");
 }

 @Override
 public Long withdrawal(String account, Long amount) {
  System.out.println("Withdrawal amount: " +amount);
  return amount;
 }

 @Override
 public void diposite(String account, Long amount) {
  System.out.println(amount+" Amount has been diposited to "+account);
 }

}

Aspect class “LoggingAspect”:
Write aspect class and methods to be executed as advice.
LoggingAspect.java

/**
 * 
 */
package com.doj.aopapp.aspect;

import org.aspectj.lang.JoinPoint;

/**
 * @author Dinesh.Rajput
 *
 */
public class LoggingAspect {
 
 /**
  * Declaring After Throwing advice 
  * @param jp
  * @throws Throwable
  */
 public void afterThrowingAdviceForAllMethods(JoinPoint jp, Exception exc) throws Throwable {
        System.out.println("****LoggingAspect.afterThrowingAdviceForAllMethods() " + jp.getSignature().getName()+" Exception "+exc);
    }
 
 /**
  * Declaring After Throwing advice for all transfer methods whose taking three arguments of any type 
  * of all classes in the package com.doj.aopapp.service
  * @param jp
  * @throws Throwable
  */
 public void afterThrowingAdviceForTransferMethods(JoinPoint jp, Exception exc) throws Throwable {
        System.out.println("****LoggingAspect.afterThrowingAdviceForTransferMethods() " + jp.getSignature().getName()+" Exception "+exc);
    }
 
}

Test Class for Spring AOP After Throwing Advice Configuration and Execution

Let’s execute following test class and analyse the output on the console.

/**
 * 
 */
package com.doj.aopapp.test;

import org.springframework.context.ConfigurableApplicationContext;
import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext;

import com.doj.aopapp.service.TransferService;

/**
 * @author Dinesh.Rajput
 *
 */
public class Main {

 /**
  * @param args
  */
 public static void main(String[] args) {
  ConfigurableApplicationContext applicationContext = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("applicationContext.xml");
  TransferService transferService = applicationContext.getBean(TransferService.class);
  transferService.transfer("accountA", "accountB", 50000l);
  transferService.checkBalance("accountA");
  transferService.diposite("accountA",  50000l);
  transferService.withdrawal("accountB", 40000l);
  applicationContext.close();
 }

}

Output on the Console:

after throwing aspect advices executed on relevant jointpoints.

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