@Configuration imported via @ImportResource is not processed [SPR-11723]

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Dave Syer opened SPR-11723 and commented

Similar but different to #16056 (and more surprising and irritating to users). Originally raised via Spring Boot at spring-projects/spring-boot#710.

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Affects: 4.0.3

Issue Links:

• AnnotationConfigApplicationContext doesn't process @Configuration classes scanned by component scan. [SPR-10984] #15612 AnnotationConfigApplicationContext doesn't process @Configuration classes scanned by component scan. ("is duplicated by")
• Beans defined by @ComponentScan are skipped in @Configuration override [SPR-9567] #14201 Beans defined by @ComponentScan are skipped in @Configuration override
• @Configuration imported via ImportBeanDefinitionRegistrar is not processed as configuration [SPR-11430] #16056 @Configuration imported via ImportBeanDefinitionRegistrar is not processed as configuration
• Regression in @Condition exclusion [SPR-12233] #16848 Regression in @Condition exclusion
• Doc: @Bean methods on @Configuration class returned from another @Bean method do not work [SPR-14602] #19171 Doc: @Bean methods on @Configuration class returned from another @Bean method do not work

2 votes, 6 watchers

[spring-projects-issues]

Dave Syer commented

Test case: spring-attic/spring-framework-issues#73

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Juergen Hoeller commented

Finally addressed through reiterating the configuration class detection algorithm until no new configuration bean definitions are being found in the registry, similar to how we do it for BeanDefinitionRegistryPostProcessors (#15258).

Juergen

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Daniel Fritsi commented

Hi,
I know this has been fixed, but unfortunately we are still on Spring 4.0 and we cannot update any time soon, and there's a use case where we have to use an AnnotationConfigApplicationContext. Is it somehow possible to import a spring xml with AnnotationConfigApplicationContext so that if I have a Configuration class written in Java and I'm using it in the xml like

<bean class="com.my.small.app.MySpringConfig" />

it gets properly processed?