Star character interpreted as bold expression in generated documentation [SPR-12456]

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Luciano Deriu opened SPR-12456 and commented

There are a few pointcut expressions that aren't valid on the Spring AOP documentation. In the examples section there are these 2 expressions (see ref URL)...

execution(* com.xyz.service..(..))
execution(* com.xyz.service...(..))

I'm just learning Spring AOP so i may be wrong but i think they should be...

execution(* com.xyz.service.*(..))
execution(* com.xyz.service.*.*(..))

Also present in this section...
http://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/current/spring-framework-reference/html/aop.html#aop-advice-before

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Affects: 4.0.8, 4.1.2

Reference URL: http://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/current/spring-framework-reference/html/aop.html#aop-pointcuts-examples

Referenced from: commits 0d00b67, a5e2afc

Backported to: 4.0.9

[spring-projects-issues]

Stéphane Nicoll commented

It turns out that the sources are right but the rendering is transforming that part for some reason

* the execution of any method defined in the service package:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	execution(* com.xyz.service.*.*(..))
----

* the execution of any method defined in the service package or a sub-package:

[source,java,indent=0]
[subs="verbatim,quotes"]
----
	execution(* com.xyz.service..*.*(..))
----

[spring-projects-issues]

Stéphane Nicoll commented

This actually affects other areas of the documentation.

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Stéphane Nicoll commented

Thanks for the report Luciano!

This helped to identify an issue when we transitioned from docbook to asciidoctor. I have fixed those samples and many more. Please check the SNAPSHOT build of the doc for more details.

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Luciano Deriu commented

You're welcome. Glad I could contribute in some way! The snapshot looks good.