Spring IDE does not show aliased bean in depndency graph ?

[PeeWee]

Hi all,

I am new to STS and Spring so this may be a stupid question.

I am trying to learn someone else's code, so I am generating beans dependency graphs.
I could not figure out how the code was working until I realized that aliased beans were not visible in the dependency graph.

I have the following context:

In core.xml
<bean id="C"
<property name="services" ref="startupServices"/>
</bean>

In local.xml
<bean id="defaultStartupServices"/>

In local.xml
<alias name="defaultStartupServices" alias="startupServices"/>

In container.xml
<import resource="core.xml">
<import resource="local.xml">
<import resource="local-aliases.xml">

I added those 4 files in Beans Support-->Config Files and I checked the option [Enable support for <import/> element ...]

If I ask for a dependency graph for the node in container.xml-beans-beans-C, the dependency to defaultStartupService does not appear.

Can you tell me why ?
Is there a way to resolve alias before the graph is displayed ?

Thanks

[ldossantos]

The beans graph does not resolve aliases when filling out the dependency tree. I've filed a feature request here:

STS-2584: Beans graph does not resolve aliases when drawing dependencies
https://issuetracker.springsource.com/browse/STS-2584

[PeeWee]

Thanks for your reply. It would be a great feature.

PW