Allow programmatic registration of bean definitions with a ResolvableType [SPR-14580]

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Phil Webb opened SPR-14580 and commented

As discussed on this Spring Boot issue (spring-projects/spring-boot#6602) it would be useful if we could programmatically register a RootBeanDefinition that including a ResolvableType.

Currently generics are only considered when a bean is defined against a factory method.

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Affects: 4.3.2

Issue Links:

• Allow manually registered bean definitions to specify a generic type to participate in generics qualifier resolution [SPR-13898] #18472 Allow manually registered bean definitions to specify a generic type to participate in generics qualifier resolution ("is duplicated by")
• Introduce a pre-resolved target type in RootBeanDefinition [SPR-10335] #14969 Introduce a pre-resolved target type in RootBeanDefinition
• Provide registerBean variants based on ResolvableType [SPR-15197] #18463 Provide registerBean variants based on ResolvableType
• Publicly expose ResolvableType in RootBeanDefinition [SPR-17028] #21566 Publicly expose ResolvableType in RootBeanDefinition

Referenced from: commits 4b06b60, e6cefdc

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Phil Webb commented

PR #1133

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Juergen Hoeller commented

I've implemented this a bit differently, repurposing setTargetType and simply providing an overloaded version which accepts a ResolvableType now.