Autowired dependency not injected in Aspect in Spring MVC

Question

I am not able to @Autowire the Service Layer Instance in Aspect. In Aspect the reference to the @Autowired bean is NULL and it throws NullPointer

Answer 1

For anyone looking for a java based bean configuration, Using java reflections I could archive the same

@Bean
public ExceptionAspectHandler exceptionAspectHandler(){
    try
    {
        //noinspection JavaReflectionMemberAccess
        Method method = ExceptionAspectHandler.class.getMethod("aspectOf" );
        return (ExceptionAspectHandler) method.invoke(null);
    }
    catch( IllegalAccessException | InvocationTargetException | NoSuchMethodException e )
    {
       logger.log( Level.SEVERE, "Error creating bean : ", e );
    }
    return null;
}

Since the aspectOf() method is not available during compile time we cannot create the bean by just calling the method. That is why XML configuration is able to handle it.

Alternatively simpler approach

@Bean
public ExceptionAspectHandler exceptionAspectHandler()
{
    return Aspects.aspectOf( ExceptionAspectHandler.class );
}

This also does work.