NPE while try to use abstract beans with optional properties [SPR-14474]

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Alexander opened SPR-14474 and commented

Since spring 4.3 there is NPE when i try to use abstract beans with optional properties.
NPE was thrown when trying to create bean with parent abstract bean without optional property.

Pls, see attached files (complete example present at github)

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Affects: 4.3 GA, 4.3.1

Reference URL: https://github.com/chabapok/springBugDemo

Attachments:

• beans1.groovy (309 bytes)
• MyCoolBean.java (411 bytes)

Issue Links:

• Unable to define empty java.util.Optional bean in spring xml [SPR-14121] #18693 Unable to define empty java.util.Optional bean in spring xml

Referenced from: commits 938b56c, fe17f8d

[spring-projects-issues]

Juergen Hoeller commented

This turns out to be a gap in our new BeanWrapperImpl.setBeanInstance method: It does not expose the given object as a root object for exception message purposes. Fixed in master now; to be backported to 4.3.2 later today.