BeanPostProcessor callbacks don't work as expected for @PostConstruct annotated methods [SPR-6066]

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Joris Kuipers opened SPR-6066 and commented

Creating this issue per Juergen's request:
because support for @PostConstruct is implemented using a BeanPostProcessor, the BPP.postProcessBeforeInitialization method is invoked after the actual initialization method that has the annotation. This has always been the case since support for JSR-250 was added I think, but no issue was ever created to make sure to track this deficiency.
Added a simple test case that shows the described behavior,

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Affects: 2.5.6, 3.0 M4

Attachments:

• BppLifecycleTest.zip (4.65 kB)

Referenced from: commits 7428014, fcaf692, c495cbb

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Juergen Hoeller commented

I've finally addressed this through re-ordering our post-processors: Internal ones simply kick in after regular ones now. That seems to work fine in all common cases.

Juergen