Unable to intercept the advice method in Spring AOP

Question

I am implementing custom annotation processing using Spring AOP. I have below code.

public class CacheDemo  {

    private static ApplicationContext applicationContext;

    public static void main(String args[])
    {
         applicationContext =
               new AnnotationConfigApplicationContext(ApplicationConfiguration.class);
    }
  }

//Application Configuration

@Configuration
@ComponentScan("Demo")
@Component
public class ApplicationConfiguration implements ApplicationContextAware {

    @Autowired
    TestCacheDemo testCacheDemo;
    private static ApplicationContext applicationContext;

    @Override
    public void setApplicationContext(ApplicationContext ctx) throws BeansException {

        applicationContext = ctx;
    }
   
    @Bean
    public void testCacheDemoIntialize()
    {
        testCacheDemo.setApplicationContext(applicationContext);
        testCacheDemo.test();
    }
}

//CustomAnnotation processor

@Aspect
@Component
public class CustomAnnotationAspect {

    @Autowired
    private AbstractCacheService cacheService;

    @Around("@annotation(Demo.CustomCacheable)")
    public Object customCacheable(ProceedingJoinPoint joinPoint) throws Throwable { // This method is not called at all

       joinPoint.proceed();

      // Some other code to follow

}

// Custom Annotation

@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Target(ElementType.METHOD)
public @interface CustomCacheable {

}

// Annotation user

 @Component
public class CacheProvider
{
    @Autowired
    AbstractCacheService abstractCacheService;
    CacheManager<String,String> cacheManager;


    @PostConstruct
    void init()
    {
        cacheManager = CreateCache.create(s -> {return s.toUpperCase();});
        abstractCacheService.setCacheManager(cacheManager);

    }

    @CustomCacheable
    String getCacheValue(String s)
    {
        String str=s.toUpperCase();
        return str;
    }

}

For testing purpose I have created the below bean

@Component
public class TestCacheDemo extends TimerTask
{
    private  ApplicationContext applicationContext;
    private Timer timer;
    @Autowired
    CacheProvider cacheProvider;
    void test()
    {
        System.out.println("Called test");
        for (String beanName : applicationContext.getBeanDefinitionNames()) {
            System.out.println(beanName);
        }

        //CacheProvider cacheProvider = applicationContext.getBean(CacheProvider.class);
        //cacheProvider.getCacheValue("Hello");

        timer = new Timer();
        timer.schedule(this,1000,3000);
    }
    void setApplicationContext(ApplicationContext ctx)
    {
        applicationContext=ctx;
    }


    @Override
    public void run() {
        cacheProvider.getCacheValue("Hi");
    }
}

Whenever the application is started it will call the test method of the TestCacheDemo Class and sets the timer to be fired after 3 secs so that I can call the annotated method getCacheValue from inside the run method of the timer task. But when the annotated method is called the annotation processor is not invoked. Hence I am unable to do annotation processing. Please let me know where is the problem?

Answer 1

To use AspectJ in spring boot you must enable it. You should add the following annotation to your application main class (CacheDemo) or application configuration class.

@EnableAspectJAutoProxy