MergedBeanDefinitionPostProcessor

Class Overview

Post-processor callback interface for merged bean definitions at runtime. BeanPostProcessor implementations may implement this sub-interface in order to post-process the merged bean definition that the Spring BeanFactory uses to create a specific bean instance.

The postProcessMergedBeanDefinition(RootBeanDefinition, Class, String) method may for example introspect the bean definition in order to prepare some cached metadata before post-processing actual instances of a bean. It is also allowed to modify the bean definition but only for bean definition properties which are actually intended for concurrent modification. Basically, this only applies to operations defined on the RootBeanDefinition itself but not to the properties of its base classes.

Summary

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From interface org.springframework.beans.factory.config.BeanPostProcessor abstract Object postProcessAfterInitialization(Object bean, String beanName) Apply this BeanPostProcessor to the given new bean instance after any bean initialization callbacks (like InitializingBean's afterPropertiesSet or a custom init-method). abstract Object postProcessBeforeInitialization(Object bean, String beanName) Apply this BeanPostProcessor to the given new bean instance before any bean initialization callbacks (like InitializingBean's afterPropertiesSet or a custom init-method).