@AspectJ pointcut for all methods of a class with specific annotation

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I want to monitor all public methods of all Classes with specified annotation (say @Monitor) (note: Annotation is at class level). What could be a possible pointcut for this? Note: I am using @AspectJ style Spring AOP.

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Something like that:

@Before("execution(* com.yourpackage..*.*(..))")
public void monitor(JoinPoint jp) {
    if (jp.getTarget().getClass().isAnnotationPresent(Monitor.class)) {
       // perform the monitoring actions
    }
}

Note that you must not have any other advice on the same class before this one, because the annotations will be lost after proxying.

You can also define the pointcut as

public pointcut publicMethodInsideAClassMarkedWithAtMonitor() : execution(public * (@Monitor *).*(..));

I share with you a code that can be useful, it is to create an annotation that can be used either in a class or a method.

@Target({TYPE, METHOD})
@Retention(RUNTIME)
@Documented
public @interface AnnotationLogger {
    /**
     * It is the parameter is to show arguments in the method or the class.
     */
    boolean showArguments() default false;
}


@Aspect
@Component
public class AnnotationLoggerAspect {
    
    @Autowired 
    private Logger logger;  
    
    private static final String METHOD_NAME   = "METHOD NAME: {} ";
    private static final String ARGUMENTS     = "ARGS: {} ";
    
    @Before(value = "@within(com.org.example.annotations.AnnotationLogger) || @annotation(com.org.example.annotations.AnnotationLogger)")
    public void logAdviceExecutionBefore(JoinPoint joinPoint){  
        CodeSignature codeSignature = (CodeSignature) joinPoint.getSignature();
        AnnotationLogger annotationLogger = getAnnotationLogger(joinPoint);
        if(annotationLogger!= null) {
            StringBuilder annotationLoggerFormat = new StringBuilder();
            List<Object> annotationLoggerArguments = new ArrayList<>();
            annotationLoggerFormat.append(METHOD_NAME);
            annotationLoggerArguments.add(codeSignature.getName());
            
            if (annotationLogger.showArguments()) {
                annotationLoggerFormat.append(ARGUMENTS);
                List<?> argumentList = Arrays.asList(joinPoint.getArgs());
                annotationLoggerArguments.add(argumentList.toString());
            }
            logger.error(annotationLoggerFormat.toString(), annotationLoggerArguments.toArray());
        }
    }
    
    private AnnotationLogger getAnnotationLogger(JoinPoint joinPoint) {
        AnnotationLogger annotationLogger = null;
        try {
            MethodSignature signature = (MethodSignature) joinPoint.getSignature();
            Method method = joinPoint.getTarget().getClass().
                    getMethod(signature.getMethod().getName(), signature.getMethod().getParameterTypes());
            
            if (method.isAnnotationPresent(AnnotationLogger.class)){
                annotationLogger = method.getAnnotation(AnnotationLoggerAspect.class);
            }else if (joinPoint.getTarget().getClass().isAnnotationPresent(AnnotationLoggerAspect.class)){
                annotationLogger = joinPoint.getTarget().getClass().getAnnotation(AnnotationLoggerAspect.class);
            }
            return annotationLogger;
        }catch(Exception e) {
            return annotationLogger;
        }
    }
}
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