Spring AOP AfterThrowing vs. Around Advice

Question

when trying to implement an Aspect, that is responsible for catching and logging a certain type of error, I initially thought this would be possible using the AfterThrowing advi

Answer 1

Actually, it is possible to catch exception within AfterThrowing advice as well. I know it is a convoluted example, but it works.

@Aspect
@Component
class MyAspect {

    @Autowired
    public Worker worker;

    @Pointcut(value = "execution(public * com.ex*..*.*(..))")
    public void matchingAll(){}

    @AfterThrowing(pointcut = "matchingAll()", throwing = "e")
    public void myAdvice(RuntimeException e){
        Thread.setDefaultUncaughtExceptionHandler((t, e1) -> 
                System.out.println("Caught " + e1.getMessage()));
        System.out.println("Worker returned " + worker.print());
    }
}

@Component
class Worker {

    public static int value = 0;

    public int print() {
        if (value++ == 0) {
            System.out.println("Throwing exception");
            throw new RuntimeException("Hello world");
        } else {
            return value;
        }
    }
}

@SpringBootApplication
@EnableAspectJAutoProxy
public class AdvicesDemo {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        final ConfigurableApplicationContext applicationContext = SpringApplication.run(AdvicesDemo.class);
        final Worker worker = applicationContext.getBean(Worker.class);
        System.out.println("Worker returned " + worker.print());
        System.out.println("All done");
    }
}

As you can see it is more about how to catch originally thrown exception and thus prevent its propagation back to the caller.

Working example on GitHub (check com.example.advices package)