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| <title>Autoboxing and Join Point matching in AspectJ 5</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="aspectj-docs.css" type="text/css"><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.44"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="The AspectJTM 5 Development Kit Developer's Notebook"><link rel="up" href="autoboxing.html" title="Chapter 4. Autoboxing and Unboxing"><link rel="previous" href="autoboxing.html" title="Chapter 4. Autoboxing and Unboxing"><link rel="next" href="autoboxing-and-method-dispatch.html" title="Inter-type method declarations and method dispatch"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Autoboxing and Join Point matching in AspectJ 5</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="autoboxing.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Chapter 4. Autoboxing and Unboxing</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="autoboxing-and-method-dispatch.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="sect1"><a name="autoboxing-in-aspectj5"></a><div class="titlepage"><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="autoboxing-in-aspectj5"></a>Autoboxing and Join Point matching in AspectJ 5</h2></div></div><p>Most of the pointcut designators match based on signatures, and | |
| hence are unaffected by autoboxing. For example, a call to a method</p><pre class="programlisting"> | |
| public void foo(Integer i); | |
| </pre><p>is <span class="emphasis"><i>not</i></span> matched by a pointcut | |
| <tt>call(void foo(int))</tt> since the signature declares | |
| a single <tt>Integer</tt> parameter, not an <tt>int</tt>. | |
| </p><p>The <tt>args</tt> pointcut designator is affected by | |
| autoboxing since it matches based on the runtime type of the arguments. | |
| AspectJ 5 applies autoboxing and unboxing in determining argument matching. | |
| In other words, <tt>args(Integer)</tt> will match any join | |
| point at which there is a single argument of type <tt>Integer</tt> | |
| or of type <tt>int</tt>.</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul><li><a name="d0e3115"></a>args(Integer) and args(int) are equivalent</li><li><a name="d0e3117"></a>args(Float) and args(float) are equivalent</li><li><a name="d0e3119"></a>args(Double) and args(double) are equivalent</li><li><a name="d0e3121"></a>args(Short) and args(short) are equivalent</li><li><a name="d0e3123"></a>args(Byte) and args(byte) are equivalent</li><li><a name="d0e3125"></a>args(Long) and args(long) are equivalent</li><li><a name="d0e3127"></a>args(Boolean) and args(boolean) are equivalent</li></ul></div><p> | |
| Autoboxing and unboxing are also applied when binding pointcut or | |
| advice parameters, for example: | |
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| pointcut foo(int i) : args(i); | |
| before(Integer i) : foo(i) { | |
| ... | |
| } | |
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