Aspectj Pointcut expression not working for one method and working for another method in single class

Question

I have written below code in controller.

For this controllerMethod method the aspectj Pointcut expression is working fine but for executeService method Aspect is not working.

@RequestMapping(value = "URL", method = RequestMethod.POST)
public ModelAndView controllerMethod(@ModelAttribute ModelAttribute reqModel, HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res) {

    try {
        response = executeService(param1, param2);

    } catch (Exception e) {

    }

    }       
private ResponseObject executeService(String param1, String param2){
    //Code....
}

I have written the aspect as below.

@Before("execution(* com.*.*.Controller.executeService(..))")
public void logBefore(JoinPoint joinPoint) {
    logger.info("Before aspect: " + joinPoint.getSignature().getName());
}

Can you please let me know where is the issues. I need to execute aspect before calling executeService method.

Answer 1

Because the AOP not intercept internal call ,so you can add a self-controller field,and call the internal method by self.method(...). Following code:

@Controller
public class ExampleController{

    @Autowired
    private ExampleController self;

    @RequestMapping(value = "URL", method = RequestMethod.POST)
    public ModelAndView controllerMethod(@ModelAttribute ModelAttribute reqModel, HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res) {

        try {
            response = self.executeService(param1, param2);

        } catch (Exception e) {

        }

    }
    public ResponseObject executeService(String param1, String param2){
        //Code....
    }
}