No way to retrieve the actual target type using beanName [SPR-12704]

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Stéphane Nicoll opened SPR-12704 and commented

ApplicationContext#getType(String beanName) returns the Class<?> of the bean exposed with the specified name.

When the bean is wrapped in a proxy, it returns the class of the proxy which does not help much. The way to workaround that for the moment is to get the bean instance (getBean(beanName) and use AopUtils.getTargetClass() with the result. Unfortunately the whole point of calling getType is to use the meta-data of the bean factory and not early initialize the bean instance.

It would be nice if the target type would be exposed as well.

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Issue Links:

• @Order should get detected in case of proxyTargetClass=false as well [SPR-12636] #17237 @Order should get detected in case of proxyTargetClass=false as well ("is depended on by")

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