The AspectJPrecedenceComparator was designed to mimic the precedence
order enforced by the AspectJ compiler with regard to multiple 'after'
methods defined within the same aspect whose pointcuts match the same
joinpoint. Specifically, if an aspect declares multiple @After,
@AfterReturning, or @AfterThrowing advice methods whose pointcuts match
the same joinpoint, such 'after' advice methods should be invoked in
the reverse order in which they are declared in the source code.
When the AspectJPrecedenceComparator was introduced in Spring Framework
2.0, it achieved its goal of mimicking the AspectJ compiler since the
JDK at that time (i.e., Java 5) ensured that an invocation of
Class#geDeclaredMethods() returned an array of methods that matched the
order of declaration in the source code. However, Java 7 removed this
guarantee. Consequently, in Java 7 or higher,
AspectJPrecedenceComparator no longer works as it is documented or as
it was designed when sorting advice methods in a single @Aspect class.
Note, however, that AspectJPrecedenceComparator continues to work as
documented and designed when sorting advice configured via the
<aop:aspect> XML namespace element.
PR gh-24673 highlights a use case where AspectJPrecedenceComparator
fails to assign the highest precedence to an @After advice method
declared last in the source code. Note that an @After advice method
with a precedence higher than @AfterReturning and @AfterThrowing advice
methods in the same aspect will effectively be invoked last due to the
try-finally implementation in AspectJAfterAdvice.invoke() which invokes
proceed() in the try-block and invokeAdviceMethod() in the
finally-block.
Since Spring cannot reliably determine the source code declaration
order of annotated advice methods without using ASM to analyze the byte
code, this commit introduces reliable invocation order for advice
methods declared within a single @Aspect. Specifically, the
getAdvisors(...) method in ReflectiveAspectJAdvisorFactory now hard
codes the declarationOrderInAspect to `0` instead of using the index of
the current advice method. This is necessary since the index no longer
has any correlation to the method declaration order in the source code.
The result is that all advice methods discovered via reflection will
now be sorted only according to the precedence rules defined in the
ReflectiveAspectJAdvisorFactory.METHOD_COMPARATOR. Specifically, advice
methods within a single @Aspect will be sorted in the following order
(with @After advice methods effectively invoked after @AfterReturning
and @AfterThrowing advice methods): @Around, @Before, @After,
@AfterReturning, @AfterThrowing.
The modified assertions in AspectJAutoProxyAdviceOrderIntegrationTests
demonstrate the concrete effects of this change.
Closes gh-25186
Prior to this commit we did not have tests in place to verify the status
quo for the invocation order of all advice types when declared within
a single aspect, either via the <aop:aspect> XML namespace or AspectJ
auto-proxy support.
This commit introduces such tests that demonstrate where such ordering
is broken or suboptimal.
The only test for which the advice invocation order is correct or at
least as expected is the afterAdviceTypes() test method in
ReflectiveAspectJAdvisorFactoryTests, where an AOP proxy is hand crafted
using ReflectiveAspectJAdvisorFactory without the use of Spring's
AspectJPrecedenceComparator.
See gh-25186
While resolving the regression raised in gh-23571, it came to our
attention that not all of our ClassFilter and MethodMatcher
implementations were properly cacheable with CGLIB generated proxies
due to missing (or improper) equals() and hashCode() implementations.
Although such deficiencies may not manifest themselves as bugs in Core
Spring's default arrangements, these might cause issues in custom
arrangements in user applications.
This commit addresses this by ensuring that ClassFilter and
MethodMatcher implementations properly implement equals() and
hashCode(). In addition, missing toString() implementations have been
added to improve diagnostics for logging and debugging.
Closes gh-23659
Spring Framework 5.2 M1 introduced a memory leak for applications using
@Async methods. Specifically, in a large test suite with multiple
ApplicationContexts that were closed (e.g., via @DirtiesContext,
@MockBean, or context cache eviction), the JVM process could run out of
memory.
Underlying cause: Due to a missing equals() implementation in Spring's
new AnnotationCandidateClassFilter, CGLIB's static cache of generated
classes indirectly retained references to BeanFactory instances for the
closed ApplicationContexts for the duration of the test suite.
This commit fixes this regression by introducing a proper equals()
implementation in AnnotationCandidateClassFilter. This commit also
introduces corresponding hashCode() and toString() implementations.
Closes gh-23571
Prior to this commit, the Spring Framework build would partially use the
dependency management plugin to import and enforce BOMs.
This commit applies the dependency management plugin to all Java
projects and regroups all version management declaration in the root
`build.gradle` file (versions and exclusions).
Some versions are overridden in specific modules for
backwards-compatibility reasons or extended support.
This commit also adds the Gradle versions plugin that checks for
dependency upgrades in artifact repositories and produces a report; you
can use the following:
./gradlew dependencyUpdates