java - In Spring Boot Application, annotation based pointcut is not executed -

hi have created spring boot application , trying apply aspect using spring aop. code below ...

the custom timer annotation

package org.my.pckg.annotation;  @retention(retentionpolicy.runtime) @target({elementtype.method}) public @interface timer { } 

the timerloggingaspect aspect

@aspect @component public class timeloggingaspect {  @pointcut("annotation(@org.my.pckg.annotation.timer)") public void loggingpointcutdefinition(){}      @around("loggingpointcutdefinition()")     public void useradvice(proceedingjoinpoint joinpoint) throws throwable{         createjsonstring(joinpoint);         joinpoint.proceed();     }      private string createjsonstring(proceedingjoinpoint joinpoint) {     //logic creating , printing json         return "";     } } 

the config class

package org.my.pckg.config; @configuration @enableaspectjautoproxy   @componentscan(basepackages =     {"org.my.pckg.utilities","org.my.pckg.annotation"}) public class assetconfig {      @bean     public timeloggingaspect timeloggingaspect() {         return new timeloggingaspect();     } } 

the example test controller

package org.my.pckg; @springbootapplication @propertysources({     @propertysource(value = "classpath:application.properties", ignoreresourcenotfound = true) }) @configuration @componentscan(basepackages = {"org.my.pckg.config","org.my.pckg.annotation"}) @restcontroller @enableautoconfiguration @enableaspectjautoproxy public class example {  @timer @requestmapping("/") string home() {     return "hello world!"; }  public static void main(string[] args) throws exception {     springapplication.run(example.class, args); } } 

and application.properties contains following:

spring.aop.proxy-target-class=true 

with above setting when bebug application using:

spring-boot:run "-drun.jvmarguments=-xdebug -xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=y,address=5005" 

the aspect not executed if change pointcut @around("@annotation(org.my.pckg.annotation.timer)") @around("execution( * org.my.pckg.*.*(..))") works perfectly!

please find out what's missing in defining custom annotation..

change pointcut from:

@pointcut("execution(@org.my.pckg.annotation.timer)") 

to:

@pointcut("@annotation(org.my.pckg.annotation.timer)") 

read spring documentation on declaring pointcut.