Infinite loop when applying caller aspects

[oberon777]

I have been using caller aspects successfully until it came to instrumenting calls to some Swing classes.

In particular, the method I am instrumenting is javax.swing.JTable->addNotify. The interceptor method looks as follows:

 public Object invoke(Invocation invocation) throws Throwable {
 // log.println("Hit " + invocation);

 if(invocation instanceof CallerInvocation){
 CallerInvocation cinvocation = (CallerInvocation)invocation;

 process_call(cinvocation);
 }else{
 System.err.println("Unexpected " + invocation);
 }

 try{
 return invocation.invokeNext();
 }finally{
 //System.err.println("Failed...");
 }
 }

and the problem is that the return statement invocation.invokeNext causes method invoke() to be called on the same method as before leading to an infinite loop.

Any thoughts?

[oberon777]

Actually, it strikes me that a self-recursive function can cause this behavior. Can anybody confirm this?..

[bill.burke]

you need to use control flow