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After-throwing is an advice type which ensures that an advice runs after the method execution, only if the method exits by throwing an exception. Following is the syntax of after-throwing advice.
Syntax
<aop:config> <aop:aspect id = "log" ref = "logging"> <aop:pointcut id = "PointCut-id" expression = "execution( expression )"/> <aop:after-throwing pointcut-ref = "PointCut-id" throwing = "ex" method = "methodName"/> </aop:aspect> </aop:config>
Where,
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PointCut-id − id of the PointCut.
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ex − Exception to be thrown.
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methodName − Method name of the function to be called when a called function throws an exception and exits.
To understand the above-mentioned concepts related to After Throwing Advice, let us write an example which will implement After Throwing Advice. To write our example with few advices, let us have a working Eclipse IDE in place and use the following steps to create a Spring application −
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1 | Update the project Student created under chapter Spring AOP – Application. |
2 | Update the bean configuration and run the application as explained below. |
Following is the content of Logging.java file. This is actually a sample of aspect module, which defines the methods to be called at various points.
package com.tutorialspoint; public class Logging { /** * This is the method which I would like to execute * if there is an exception raised. */ public void afterThrowingAdvice(IllegalArgumentException ex) { System.out.println("There has been an exception: " + ex.toString()); } }
Following is the content of the Student.java file.
package com.tutorialspoint; public class Student { private Integer age; private String name; public void setAge(Integer age) { this.age = age; } public Integer getAge() { System.out.println("Age : " + age ); return age; } public void setName(String name) { this.name = name; } public String getName() { System.out.println("Name : " + name ); return name; } public void printThrowException(){ System.out.println("Exception raised"); throw new IllegalArgumentException(); } }
Following is the content of the MainApp.java file.
package com.tutorialspoint; import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext; import org.springframework.context.support.ClassPathXmlApplicationContext; public class MainApp { public static void main(String[] args) { ApplicationContext context = new ClassPathXmlApplicationContext("Beans.xml"); Student student = (Student) context.getBean("student"); student.printThrowException(); } }
Following is the configuration file Beans.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" xsi:schemaLocation = "http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-3.0.xsd "> <aop:config> <aop:aspect id = "log" ref = "logging"> <aop:pointcut id = "selectAll" expression = "execution(* com.tutorialspoint.*.*(..))"/> <aop:after-throwing pointcut-ref = "selectAll" throwing = "ex" method = "afterThrowingAdvice"/> </aop:aspect> </aop:config> <!-- Definition for student bean --> <bean id = "student" class = "com.tutorialspoint.Student"> <property name = "name" value = "Zara" /> <property name = "age" value = "11"/> </bean> <!-- Definition for logging aspect --> <bean id = "logging" class = "com.tutorialspoint.Logging"/> </beans>
Run Project
Once you are done creating the source and configuration files, run your application. Rightclick on MainApp.java in your application and use run as Java Application command. If everything is fine with your application, it will print the following message.
Exception raised There has been an exception: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException at com.tutorialspoint.Student.printThrowException(Student.java:25) ...
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