Using Spring AOP to Automatically Populate Audit Fields in Spring Boot Applications

In this article, a senior architect explains how to use Spring AOP in a Spring Boot project to automatically fill common audit columns such as creator, creation time, updater, and update time for every database table.

Instead of manually setting these fields in each SQL statement, the author defines a CommonDaoAspect aspect that declares pointcuts for DAO insert and update methods and applies @Around advice to inject the current user name and timestamps.

The core code shows the aspect class with static field names, pointcut expressions like execution(* com.xx.xxxx.*.dao.*.update*(..)) and execution(* com.xx.xxxx.*.dao.*.insert*(..)), and the advice methods that retrieve the HTTP request token, obtain the user name via UserUtils.getUsername(), and set properties on method arguments using BeanUtils.

Annotations used include @Aspect, @Component, @Pointcut, and @Around, each explained briefly. The article also notes that the approach reduces repetitive code and centralizes audit logging.

Additional notes mention a free Spring Boot tutorial link, a promotional gift for readers who reply “interview” to the public account, and copyright information.