autowiring doesn't match generics [SPR-5546]

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Scott Battaglia opened SPR-5546 and commented

I've created my own PersonFactory class that implements ObjectFactory<Person> and its labeled with @Component. I have a controller that has a property "private ObjectFactory<Person>" with autowired=true

There is only one ObjectFactory<Person>.

During bootstrap Spring can't seem to match the two up. It complains there is more than one ObjectFactory.

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Affects: 3.0 M2

Issue Links:

• Autowiring of generic types [SPR-9965] #14599 Autowiring of generic types

[spring-projects-issues]

Scott Battaglia commented

Apologies. I believe the feature actually works. Misconfiguration caused the specific bean to not instantiate.

However, the error message is slightly misleading/confusing:

Caused by: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Could not autowire field: private org.springframework.beans.factory.ObjectFactory org.openregistry.core.web.PersonController.personFactory; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No unique bean of type [org.springframework.beans.factory.ObjectFactory] is defined: Unsatisfied dependency of type [interface org.springframework.beans.factory.ObjectFactory]: expected at least 1 matching bean

Probably not worth changing though.

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Sébastien Deleuze commented

Closing this issue as requested.