Discussion on: Spring Boot Debugging with Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP)

[David Cruz]

Maybe you can add the use of @Conditional in the aspect class as a mechanism to activate and desactivate the aspects.

[Shai Almog]

Yes, I should have demonstrated that. I recommended using them for performance but didn't include it as a sample.

For reference we can do something like this:

public class DebugCondition implements Condition {
    @Override
    public boolean matches(ConditionContext context, AnnotatedTypeMetadata metadata) {
        // Check if a "debug" profile is active
        return context.getEnvironment().acceptsProfiles("debug");
    }
}

We can then do:

@Aspect
@Component
@Conditional(DebugCondition.class)
public class LoggingAspect {
   //...
}

Which will show the aspect only in debug mode.