advising all delete and save methods in spring-data-jpa - spring

Question

I have a requirement whereby I need to advise all delete and save methods and send the deleted/saved record somewhere else.
I am using JpaRepository which has
6 x delete
3 x save
Basically I need to advise all these methods. The trouble is that each of these has different method signatures and return types, sometimes accepting a Long, Object or List. I am considering using aspects to achieve this but it seems that it would be nasty as I currently have 4 objects I need to audit which comes to 4 x 9 = 36 different pointcuts. There are more of these to come so this would soon come into the hundreds.
Is there a better way?

Answer 1

I got it working as #sheltem suggested. I used EntityListeners. In my case I needed access to a spring bean and was able to it this way:
#Component
public class PublishEntityListener {
private static PublishingService publishingService;
#Autowired(
required = true)
public void setPublishingService(PublishingService publishingService) {
this.publishingService = publishingService;
}
#PostConstruct
public void init() {
//Allow the static dependency to be setup post construct as #EntityListeners are no spring managed
}
#PostPersist
public void prePersist(DomainObject<?> entity) {
publishingService.publish(getTopicName(entity), HttpMethod.POST, entity);
}
#PostUpdate
public void preUpdate(DomainObject<?> entity) {
publishingService.publish(getTopicName(entity), HttpMethod.PUT, entity);
}
#PostRemove
public void onDelete(DomainObject<?> entity) {
publishingService.publish(getTopicName(entity), HttpMethod.DELETE, entity);
}
}