org.springframework.aop
Interface IntroductionAwareMethodMatcher

All Superinterfaces:

MethodMatcher

All Known Implementing Classes:

AspectJExpressionPointcut

public interface IntroductionAwareMethodMatcher
extends MethodMatcher

A specialized type of MethodMatcher that takes into account introductions when matching methods. If there are no introductions on the target class, a method matcher may be able to optimize matching more effectively for example.

Since:

2.0

Author:

Adrian Colyer

Field Summary

Fields inherited from interface org.springframework.aop.MethodMatcher

TRUE

Method Summary

boolean

matches(Method method, Class targetClass, boolean hasIntroductions) Perform static checking whether the given method matches.

Methods inherited from interface org.springframework.aop.MethodMatcher

isRuntime, matches, matches

Method Detail

matches

boolean matches(Method method,
                Class targetClass,
                boolean hasIntroductions)

Perform static checking whether the given method matches. This may be invoked instead of the 2-arg MethodMatcher.matches(java.lang.reflect.Method, Class) method if the caller supports the extended IntroductionAwareMethodMatcher interface.

Parameters:

method - the candidate method

targetClass - the target class (may be null, in which case the candidate class must be taken to be the method's declaring class)

hasIntroductions - true if the object on whose behalf we are asking is the subject on one or more introductions; false otherwise

Returns:

whether or not this method matches statically