Spring AOP - XML Based After Throwing Advice

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,

• PointCut-id − id of the PointCut.

• ex − Exception to be thrown.

• methodName − Method name of the function to be called when a called function throws an exception and exits.

Example - Usage of After Throwing Advice

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.

Logging.java

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());   
   } 
}

Student.java

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();
   }
}

MainApp.java

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();     
   }
}

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>

Output

Once you are done creating source and configuration files, run your application. Right-click 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:23)
...