Scanned components don't have the ability of being "primary" candidates [SPR-5155]

[spring-projects-issues]

Tuomas Kiviaho opened SPR-5155 and commented

Annotations don't have the possibility to flag a component as 'primary' candidate (nor can they be disabled from being 'autowire-candidate'). ScannedGenericBeanDefinition could quite easily be enhanced to support the feature if it's available in metadata.

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Affects: 2.5.5

Issue Links:

• Provide @Primary annotation [SPR-5590] #10261 Provide @Primary annotation

[spring-projects-issues]

Juergen Hoeller commented

We have an @Primary annotation as of 3.0 M3 now.

There is still no way to switch the autowire-candidate flag using an annotation... This shouldn't be necessary for scanned components, I would assume, in particular with the availability of @Primary now.

Juergen