How to control the execution order of two pointcuts on the same package

Question

I have a situation where there is a generic pointcut and several other specific pointcuts. All I want is generic should execute first and then only specific ones should.

Generic point cut is say,

  @Before("execution(public * com.java.*.data(..))")

Specific point cut number 1

  @Before("execution(public * com.java.science.*.data(..))")

Specific point cut number 2

  @Before("execution(public * com.java.history.*.data(..))")

Specific point cut number 3

  @Before("execution(public * com.java.geography.*.data(..))")

Genric point cut should execute first and then the specific ones. Can I have control on that?

http://stackoverflow.com/a/9052331/655756 maybe it would be usefull — n1ckolas, Feb 27 '13 at 10:02

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 27 '13 at 10:06

You can set the priority using an @Order( value = ... ) on the @Aspect-annotated class:

@Aspect
@Order( value=0 )
public class MyFirstPointcut
{
    @Before("execution(public * com.java.*.data(..))")
    public void something(...) { ... }
}

@Aspect
@Order( value=1 )
public class MySecondPointcut
{
    @Before("execution(public * com.java.science.*.data(..))") 
    public void somethingElse(...) { ... }
}

...etc

How to control the execution order of two pointcuts on the same package

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