[aspectwerkz-dev] RE: AW 1.0 beta 1.0

 Hi Michael.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Nascimento Santos [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 2:17 AM
> To: [email protected]; aspectwerkz-user
> Cc: Jonas Boner; alex-he/e8N7AIe/[email protected]
> Subject: AW 1.0 beta 1.0
> 
> Hi Jonas and Alex,
> 
> First of all, congratulations for the new beta. It is great 
> to see better versions of AW out so fast.

Thanks. We are eager to hear what the community thinks about it and are
waiting for bugreports :-)
> 
> I've just read the docs and intend to try it next week. 
> However, just by reading the docs it does not seem possible 
> with to define a pointcut using the current grammar that 
> selects just the non-static methods of a class. Am I wrong?

You can do this easily using: !static 
Like:

'execution(!static * Foo.*(..))' which will pick out all non-static
methods in the class Foo. 
(You can also write 'execution(not static * Foo.*(..))' if you prefer).

If this does not work (should since it is covered by a test case), then
we have a bug.

> 
> Also, docs don't make clear the distinction between the 
> within and the withincode constructs and there are no 
> examples comparing both. That would be useful.

It is a matter of scope. Within(<type>) is within the scope of a certain
type (class) while withincode(<method sig>) has the scope of a method.
For advice you never use them alone but to narrow the scope of what you
are interested in. Useful in f.e. call() and handler() pointcuts.

What do you think I should document? Which part is not clear enough?

Thanks.

/Jonas

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