SWEN5232SoftwareConstruction

InclassactivityforaspectorientedprogrammingByAkhilaT.
1. CreateanaspectprojectnamedDemo1
2. CreateaclassnamedJavaDemo.java
3. Createafunctiontoaddtwointegersasfollows:

4. Createafunctiontoperformsquareofanumberasfollows:

5. Inthemainmethod,calltheabovetwomethodsasfollows:

6. Nowexecutethejavacode.Theoutputshouldlooklike:

7. CreateanaspectnamedAspectDemo.aj

8. Createapointcutthatprintsamessageaftertheexecutionofanypublicmethodasfollows:

Fromtheabovesnippet,youcanseethatintheexecutefunction,wehavetheaccess
specifier(inthiscasepublic)tochecktheexecutionofpublicmethod.
Thefirstasterisk(*)isthereturntypeandtheseconddenotesthenameofthemethod.
Thedotsintheparenthesisdenotethenumberofparameters.
Thus,weareprintingamessageaftertheexecutionofanypublicmethod,irrespective
ofthereturntype,nameandparametersofthemethod.
9. Afterthepointcutiscreated,executethejavacode.Theoutputshouldlooklikethefollowing:

Fromtheoutput,youcanseethattheaspectcodeisbeingcalledaftertheexecutionofadd()
methodandsquare()methods,whicharepublicmethods.Thelaststatementcorrespondsto
thecalltothemain()method
10. Now,toobservethedifference,createaprivatemethodintheJavaDemo.javafileasfollows:

11. Calltheabovefunctioninthemainmethod:

12. Observethedifferenceinoutput.
13. Changetheaccessspecifiertoprivateinthepointcutandexecutethecode.

14. Theoutputshouldlooklike:

15. CreateanewprotectedmethodtoconcatenatetwostringsinJavaDemo.java

16. CalltheabovefunctioninthemainmethodofJavaDemo.java

17. CreateapointcutinAspectDemo.ajthatprintsamessageaftertheexecutionofprotected
methodasfollows:

18. Runthecodeandverifytheresults

Wildcardswithfunctionparameters
19. CreateapointcutinAspectDemo.ajthatprintsamessagebeforetheexecutionofanymethod
withoneparameterasfollows:

20. Theoutputshouldlikefollows:

Intheabovescreenshot,thefirstlinehasthestatementExecutingamethodwithone
parameter.Thisisbecauseofthemain()methodthatisexecutedfirstandhasoneargument.
21. Thefollowingcodeprintsamessagebeforeaprotectedmethodwithtwoparametersis
executed.AddthefollowingcodetoAspectDemo.ajfile:

22. Theoutputisasfollows:

Inoutjavafile,thereisonlyoneprotectedmethodthattakestwoarguments,i.e,addStrings().
HencethemessageisdisplayedonlybeforetheexecutionofaddStrings()method.

Usingwildcardswithmethodnames
23. NowletsprintamessageaftertheexecutionofamethodthathasthewordString.Inour
code,weonlyhaveonefunctionaddStrings().Henceamessageisdisplayedaftertheexecution
oftheaddStrings()Method.AddthefollowingpointcutcodetotheAspectDemo.ajfile

Noticethe*String*.ThisstatementchecksforthemethodsthathasthewordStringatany
positionintheprotectedmethodswithtwoparameters.
24. Theoutputisasfollows:

Note:Commentedpreviouspointcutsforreadabilitypurpose
25. Toprintamessageaftertheexecutionofmethodsthatstartswiththewordaddandhastwo
arguments,irrespectiveofthereturntypeandaccessspecifierofthemethod,dothefollowing:

26. Sincetherearetwomethodsthatstartwithwordaddandhastwoparameters,theoutput
lookslikefollows: