Make DefaultListableBeanFactory's javax.inject.Provider implementation invisible for nested class introspection [SPR-17014]

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Dave Syer opened SPR-17014 and commented

DefaultListableBeanFactory has some nested types that are designed to protect the runtime against class not found errors when certain libraries are not on the classpath (in particular JSR330). Unfortunately, some static analysis tools cannot get past the fact that one of those inner classes implements an interface Provider that is not available at runtime.

Here's a program that fails when javax.inject is not on the classpath:

public class Test {
 public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
   Class<?> clazz = Class.forName( "org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory$DependencyObjectProvider");
   System.out.println(clazz.getEnclosingClass());
 }
} 

It seems like a "feature" of the JDK, but I think we can easily work around it by extracting the private nested class into a package private one.

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Affects: 5.0.7

Reference URL: oracle/graal#511

Issue Links:

• #21529 Initial GraalVM native images (Substrate VM) support ("is depended on by")

Referenced from: commits b4fc794

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Juergen Hoeller commented

There's an easy way out: moving Jsr330DependencyProvider to a nested class of Jsr330ProviderFactory, that is, one level deeper. This allows us to keep them as non-static inner classes but nevertheless make the HotSpot/Graal introspection problem go away, as far as I can tell.