Grails & AspectJ: advice for private methods is not working

Question

I need to intercept calls to private methods in Grails services. The following aspect IS working for any annotated public methods, however nothing happens when the annotation is at PRIVATE methods.

import exceptions.DwcpExeption
import org.aspectj.lang.ProceedingJoinPoint
import org.aspectj.lang.annotation.Around
import org.aspectj.lang.annotation.Aspect
import org.slf4j.Logger
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component

@Aspect
@Component
public class LoggerInterceptor {
    private static Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(LoggerInterceptor.class);
    @Around("@annotation(newAnnotation)")
    public Object aroundEvents(ProceedingJoinPoint proceedingJoinPoint, NewAnnotation newAnnotation) {
        log.info newAnnotation.value()
        String logMessage = String.format("%s.%s(%s)",
                proceedingJoinPoint.getTarget().getClass().getName(),
                proceedingJoinPoint.getSignature().getName(),
                Arrays.toString(proceedingJoinPoint.getArgs()));
        log.info "*Entering $logMessage"
        def result
        try {
            result = proceedingJoinPoint.proceed()
        catch (ex) {
            log.error '', ex
        }
        log.info "*Exiting $logMessage. Result: $result"
        return result
    }
}

Maybe the problem is in config? I've tried in applicationContext.xml <aop:aspectj-autoproxy proxy-target-class="true"/> and in resources.groovy aop.config("proxy-target-class": true)

Nevertheless, only public methods are intercepted.

Answer 1

If you don't specify the scope it defaults to public. Add a pointcut for private methods:

@Around("@annotation(newAnnotation) && execution(private * *(..))")