Add BeanFactory.getBeanNamesWithAnnotation(Class<?>, boolean, boolean) for parity with getBeansOfType(...) [SPR-11069]

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Dave Syer opened SPR-11069 and commented

Add BeanFactory.getBeanNamesWithAnnotation(Class<?>, boolean, boolean) for parity with getBeansOfType(...). The existing BeanFactory.getBeansWithAnnotation(Class<?>) is useful, but causes eager initialization of beans and factory beans. It would be good to avoid that where necessary, especially in Condition implementations.

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Juergen Hoeller commented

Introduced as getBeanNamesForAnnotation(Class<? extends Annotation), in alignment with getBeanNamesForType but even more so with getBeansWithAnnotation (which doesn't have any boolean flags to control the lookup algorithm) and with findAnnotationOnBean.

Juergen