org.aspectj.lang
Interface Signature

All Known Subinterfaces:

AdviceSignature, CatchClauseSignature, CodeSignature, ConstructorSignature, FieldSignature, InitializerSignature, MemberSignature, MethodSignature

public interface Signature

Represents the signature at a join point. This interface parallels java.lang.reflect.Member.

This interface is typically used for tracing or logging applications to obtain reflective information about the join point, i.e. using the j2se 1.4 java.util.logging API

 aspect Logging {
     Logger logger = Logger.getLogger("MethodEntries");
 
     before(): within(com.bigboxco..*) && execution(public * *(..)) {
         Signature sig = thisJoinPoint.getSignature();
         logger.entering(sig.getDeclaringType().getName(),
                         sig.getName());
     }
 }
 

More detailed information about a specific kind of signature can be obtained by casting this Signature object into one of its more specific sub-types available in org.aspectj.lang.reflect.

See Also:

Member, java.util.logging.Logger

Method Summary

Class	getDeclaringType() Returns a java.lang.Class object representing the class, interface, or aspect that declared this member.
String	getDeclaringTypeName() Returns the fully-qualified name of the declaring type.
int	getModifiers() Returns the modifiers on this signature represented as an int.
String	getName() Returns the identifier part of this signature.
String	toLongString() Returns an extended string representation of this signature.
String	toShortString() Returns an abbreviated string representation of this signature.
String	toString()

Method Detail

toString

public String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class Object

toShortString

public String toShortString()

Returns an abbreviated string representation of this signature.

toLongString

public String toLongString()

Returns an extended string representation of this signature.

getName

public String getName()

Returns the identifier part of this signature. For methods this will return the method name.

See Also:

Member.getName()

getModifiers

public int getModifiers()

Returns the modifiers on this signature represented as an int. Use the constants and helper methods defined on java.lang.reflect.Modifier to manipulate this, i.e.

     // check if this signature is public
     java.lang.reflect.Modifier.isPublic(sig.getModifiers());
 
     // print out the modifiers
     java.lang.reflect.Modifier.toString(sig.getModifiers());
 

See Also:

Member.getModifiers(), Modifier

getDeclaringType

public Class getDeclaringType()

Returns a java.lang.Class object representing the class, interface, or aspect that declared this member. For intra-member declarations, this will be the type on which the member is declared, not the type where the declaration is lexically written. Use SourceLocation.getWithinType() to get the type in which the declaration occurs lexically.

For consistency with java.lang.reflect.Member, this method should have been named getDeclaringClass().

See Also:

Member.getDeclaringClass()

getDeclaringTypeName

public String getDeclaringTypeName()

Returns the fully-qualified name of the declaring type. This is equivalent to calling getDeclaringType().getName(), but caches the result for greater efficiency.