<bean autowire="byType"> undocumented feature

[bytor99999]

autowiring is taking place if you use debug information, it isn't if you disable debug information.

I understand what you mean, but I also know that it is the IDE then that it setting debug information on, or is that the JVM's default if you don't explicitly turn it off.

Either way, having debug on or off shouldn't affect this, at least in my mind, the side affect or "bug" should be fixed, in my opinion.

Because I know if it is turned on by default then a huge percentage of production systems act this way.

Mark

[boyarsky]

Or worse, don't. Having debug set when testing locally and off when you deploy would be maddening. "But it worked when we tested it and it blows up with a basic configuration issue when we deploy" doesn't seem like it would go over well.

[Marten Deinum]

If you want it fixed register a JIRA instead of dumping it here.

The debug information is by default off, at least for variable information so basically it is only an issue if you use an IDE which changes that default. The debug information which is by default on is line numbering and source information not the variable names.

[boyarsky]

Marten,
I wasn't trying to "dump" it here. I thought I was doing something wrong rather than finding a bug when I started out!

I've logged it in JIRA - SPR-6917

[Marten Deinum]

Well not sure if it is a bug, rather a side effect from new feature. Thanks for registering the JIRA issue.

[boyarsky]

For anyone reading this, it was fixed/resolved in 3.0.2. Thanks to Christophe for telling me about that.