spring singleton bean fields are not populated

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Are you curious or you have some real issue? Nevertheless here is an explanation.

When using CGLIB to proxy classes Spring will create a subclass called something like myService$EnhancerByCGLIB. This enhanced class will override some if not all of your business methods to apply cross-cutting concerns around your actual code.

Here comes the real surprise. This extra subclass does not call super methods of the base class. Instead it creates second instance of myService and delegates to it. This means you have two objects now: your real object and CGLIB enhanced object pointing to (wrapping) it.

The enhanced class is just a dummy proxy. It still has the same fields as your base class (inherited from it) but they are not used. When you call addToList() on myService$EnhancerByCGLIB object it will first apply some AOP logic, call addToList() of myService (which it wraps) and apply remaining AOP logic on return. The myService$EnhancerByCGLIB.list field is never touched.

Why can’t Spring use the same class and delegate via super? I guess for simplicity: first create “raw” bean and then apply AOP proxying during post-processing.

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