Beans instanciated before BeanPostProcessors process their definitions [SPR-4273]

[spring-projects-issues]

Riccardo Ferretti opened SPR-4273 and commented

In certain conditions a bean defined in a context file will be created before any BeanPostProcessor can process its definition.
This occurs when:

• a BeanFactory bean is defined and its getObjectType() method returns null;
• that BeanFactory is referenced as factory-bean to create another bean;

In this case the BeanFactory bean and all its depending beans will be created before any BeanPostProcessor will have processed their definitions.

The problem is also present in the latest nightly spring built (spring-framework-2.5.1-20071218-341.zip).

I will attach a sample application that shows the problem.

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Affects: 2.5 final

Attachments:

• spring-bug-src.tar (10.00 kB)

[spring-projects-issues]

Riccardo Ferretti commented

Just run com.acme.Spring25BPPBug to reproduce the bug.
When running using spring 2.0 the displayed message is correct ("ciao mondo"). When running using spring 2.5 the replacement property is instead displayed.

[spring-projects-issues]

Juergen Hoeller commented

Thanks for the report! This was an unfortunate gap in the eager-init check that I've fixed for 2.5.1 now.

This will be available in the next 2.5.1 snapshot (#343, soon to be available from http://static.springframework.org/downloads/nightly/snapshot-download.php?project=SPR). Please give it a try and let me know whether it works for you!

Juergen