Improve warning for unexpected use of value attribute as @⁠Component name

Prior to this commit, if a String 'value' attribute of an annotation
was annotated with @⁠AliasFor and explicitly configured to alias an
attribute other than @⁠Component.value, the value was still used as the
@⁠Component name, but the warning message that was logged stated that
the 'value' attribute should be annotated with
@⁠AliasFor(annotation=Component.class). However, it is not possible to
annotate an annotation attribute twice with @⁠AliasFor.

To address that, this commit revises the logic in
AnnotationBeanNameGenerator so that it issues a log message similar to
the following in such scenarios.

WARN o.s.c.a.AnnotationBeanNameGenerator - Although the 'value'
attribute in @⁠example.MyStereotype declares @⁠AliasFor for an
attribute other than @⁠Component's 'value' attribute, the value is
still used as the @⁠Component name based on convention. As of Spring
Framework 7.0, such a 'value' attribute will no longer be used as the
@⁠Component name.

See gh-34346
Closes gh-34317

(cherry picked from commit 17a94fb)

Author: sbrannen

spring-context/src/main/java/org/springframework/context/annotation/AnnotationBeanNameGenerator.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2002-2023 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2002-2025 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 package org.springframework.context.annotation;
 
 import java.lang.annotation.Annotation;
+import java.lang.reflect.Method;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.HashSet;
 import java.util.LinkedHashSet;
@@ -33,6 +34,7 @@
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.BeanDefinition;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionRegistry;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanNameGenerator;
+import org.springframework.core.annotation.AliasFor;
 import org.springframework.core.annotation.AnnotationAttributes;
 import org.springframework.core.annotation.MergedAnnotation;
 import org.springframework.core.annotation.MergedAnnotation.Adapt;
@@ -41,6 +43,7 @@
 import org.springframework.lang.Nullable;
 import org.springframework.util.Assert;
 import org.springframework.util.ClassUtils;
+import org.springframework.util.ReflectionUtils;
 import org.springframework.util.StringUtils;
 
 /**
@@ -147,16 +150,26 @@ protected String determineBeanNameFromAnnotation(AnnotatedBeanDefinition annotat
 				Set<String> metaAnnotationTypes = this.metaAnnotationTypesCache.computeIfAbsent(annotationType,
 						key -> getMetaAnnotationTypes(mergedAnnotation));
 				if (isStereotypeWithNameValue(annotationType, metaAnnotationTypes, attributes)) {
-					Object value = attributes.get("value");
+					Object value = attributes.get(MergedAnnotation.VALUE);
 					if (value instanceof String currentName && !currentName.isBlank()) {
 						if (conventionBasedStereotypeCheckCache.add(annotationType) &&
 								metaAnnotationTypes.contains(COMPONENT_ANNOTATION_CLASSNAME) && logger.isWarnEnabled()) {
-							logger.warn("""
-									Support for convention-based stereotype names is deprecated and will \
-									be removed in a future version of the framework. Please annotate the \
-									'value' attribute in @%s with @AliasFor(annotation=Component.class) \
-									to declare an explicit alias for @Component's 'value' attribute."""
-										.formatted(annotationType));
+							if (hasExplicitlyAliasedValueAttribute(mergedAnnotation.getType())) {
+								logger.warn("""
+										Although the 'value' attribute in @%s declares @AliasFor for an attribute \
+										other than @Component's 'value' attribute, the value is still used as the \
+										@Component name based on convention. As of Spring Framework 7.0, such a \
+										'value' attribute will no longer be used as the @Component name."""
+											.formatted(annotationType));
+							}
+							else {
+								logger.warn("""
+										Support for convention-based @Component names is deprecated and will \
+										be removed in a future version of the framework. Please annotate the \
+										'value' attribute in @%s with @AliasFor(annotation=Component.class) \
+										to declare an explicit alias for @Component's 'value' attribute."""
+											.formatted(annotationType));
+							}
 						}
 						if (beanName != null && !currentName.equals(beanName)) {
 							throw new IllegalStateException("Stereotype annotations suggest inconsistent " +
@@ -224,7 +237,7 @@ protected boolean isStereotypeWithNameValue(String annotationType,
 				annotationType.equals("jakarta.inject.Named") ||
 				annotationType.equals("javax.inject.Named");
 
-		return (isStereotype && attributes.containsKey("value"));
+		return (isStereotype && attributes.containsKey(MergedAnnotation.VALUE));
 	}
 
 	/**
@@ -255,4 +268,14 @@ protected String buildDefaultBeanName(BeanDefinition definition) {
 		return StringUtils.uncapitalizeAsProperty(shortClassName);
 	}
 
+	/**
+	 * Determine if the supplied annotation type declares a {@code value()} attribute
+	 * with an explicit alias configured via {@link AliasFor @AliasFor}.
+	 * @since 6.2.3
+	 */
+	private static boolean hasExplicitlyAliasedValueAttribute(Class<? extends Annotation> annotationType) {
+		Method valueAttribute = ReflectionUtils.findMethod(annotationType, MergedAnnotation.VALUE);
+		return (valueAttribute != null && valueAttribute.isAnnotationPresent(AliasFor.class));
+	}
+
 }

spring-context/src/test/java/org/springframework/context/annotation/AnnotationBeanNameGeneratorTests.java

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2002-2024 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2002-2025 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -168,6 +168,25 @@ void generateBeanNameFromSubStereotypeAnnotationWithStringArrayValueAndExplicitC
 		assertGeneratedName(RestControllerAdviceClass.class, "myRestControllerAdvice");
 	}
 
+	@Test  // gh-34317
+	void generateBeanNameFromStereotypeAnnotationWithStringValueAsExplicitAliasForMetaAnnotationOtherThanComponent() {
+		// As of Spring Framework 6.2, "enigma" is incorrectly used as the @Component name.
+		// As of Spring Framework 7.0, the generated name will be "annotationBeanNameGeneratorTests.StereotypeWithoutExplicitName".
+		assertGeneratedName(StereotypeWithoutExplicitName.class, "enigma");
+	}
+
+	@Test  // gh-34317
+	void generateBeanNameFromStereotypeAnnotationWithStringValueAndExplicitAliasForComponentNameWithBlankName() {
+		// As of Spring Framework 6.2, "enigma" is incorrectly used as the @Component name.
+		// As of Spring Framework 7.0, the generated name will be "annotationBeanNameGeneratorTests.StereotypeWithGeneratedName".
+		assertGeneratedName(StereotypeWithGeneratedName.class, "enigma");
+	}
+
+	@Test  // gh-34317
+	void generateBeanNameFromStereotypeAnnotationWithStringValueAndExplicitAliasForComponentName() {
+		assertGeneratedName(StereotypeWithExplicitName.class, "explicitName");
+	}
+
 
 	private void assertGeneratedName(Class<?> clazz, String expectedName) {
 		BeanDefinition bd = annotatedBeanDef(clazz);
@@ -319,7 +338,6 @@ static class ComposedControllerAnnotationWithStringValue {
 		String[] basePackages() default {};
 	}
 
-
 	@TestControllerAdvice(basePackages = "com.example", name = "myControllerAdvice")
 	static class ControllerAdviceClass {
 	}
@@ -328,4 +346,56 @@ static class ControllerAdviceClass {
 	static class RestControllerAdviceClass {
 	}
 
+	@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
+	@Target(ElementType.ANNOTATION_TYPE)
+	@interface MetaAnnotationWithStringAttribute {
+
+		String attribute() default "";
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Custom stereotype annotation which has a {@code String value} attribute that
+	 * is explicitly declared as an alias for an attribute in a meta-annotation
+	 * other than {@link Component @Component}.
+	 */
+	@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
+	@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
+	@Component
+	@MetaAnnotationWithStringAttribute
+	@interface MyStereotype {
+
+		@AliasFor(annotation = MetaAnnotationWithStringAttribute.class, attribute = "attribute")
+		String value() default "";
+	}
+
+	@MyStereotype("enigma")
+	static class StereotypeWithoutExplicitName {
+	}
+
+	/**
+	 * Custom stereotype annotation which is identical to {@link MyStereotype @MyStereotype}
+	 * except that it has a {@link #name} attribute that is an explicit alias for
+	 * {@link Component#value}.
+	 */
+	@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
+	@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
+	@Component
+	@MetaAnnotationWithStringAttribute
+	@interface MyNamedStereotype {
+
+		@AliasFor(annotation = MetaAnnotationWithStringAttribute.class, attribute = "attribute")
+		String value() default "";
+
+		@AliasFor(annotation = Component.class, attribute = "value")
+		String name() default "";
+	}
+
+	@MyNamedStereotype(value = "enigma", name ="explicitName")
+	static class StereotypeWithExplicitName {
+	}
+
+	@MyNamedStereotype(value = "enigma")
+	static class StereotypeWithGeneratedName {
+	}
+
 }