AspectJ inside a testing framework

Question

I'm trying to apply a cross cutting concern which is logging with AspectJ and a test framework called Katalon which uses Groovy and Java. I found that the best weaving type appropriate here is load-time weaving which requires a META-INF folder and an Aop.xml. I tried to put my aop.xml in multiple places but I think aspectj is unable to find it. This is the structure of my project:

Here is my aop.xml file content:

<aspectj>
    <aspects>
        <aspect name="com.fd.common.aspectName"/>
        <weaver options="-verbose -showWeaveInfo">
            <include within="com.myapp.common.*"/>
        </weaver>
    </aspects>
</aspectj>

And here is my aspect :

@Aspect
public class test {
    @org.aspectj.lang.annotation.Before("execution(* *.*(..))")
    public void bef (JoinPoint jp) {
        System.out.println(jp.getSignature());
        System.out.println("Beforeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee");
    }
}

Answer 1

My first guess, not having seen your real project, is that you should move the weaver options out of the aspect declaration section like this:

<aspectj>
    <aspects>
        <aspect name="com.fd.common.aspectName"/>
    </aspects>
    <weaver options="-verbose -showWeaveInfo">
        <include within="com.myapp.common.*"/>
    </weaver>
</aspectj>

If this does not help, I need more information. I have never used Katalon before, so I need to inspect your exact project setup - of course not your full original project, if proprietary. But please prepare an MCVE reproducing the problem, publish it on GitHub and I can take a look for you. I need to see how you call java and what is logged to the console.

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Update: There was a follow-up question about how to use system property org.aspectj.weaver.loadtime.configuration in order to point to an alternative resource URL or file system path name. I answered the same question before here and have just updated it with some more detail.