Question

I have the following classes defined:

public interface Thingy { ... }
public class Foo implements Thingy { ... }
public class Bar implements Thingy { ... }

Classes Foo and Bar are both instanciated as singleton beans with same names, as in

<bean id="foo" class="Foo" />
<bean id="bar" class="Bar" />

The problem happens then trying to autowire field with same name as bean, like

@Autowired
Thingy foo;

Here, field is autowired with Foo instance, and i don’t want that. If field name doesn’t match bean name, autowiring falis and that’s desired.
So, is there any way to disable such fallback, so autowiring in above case would fail?

Answer 1

I don’t think it’s possible, the other way around it is, using setFallbackToDefaultTypeMatch:
javadoc: CommonAnnotationBeanPostProcessor

Why don’t you just rename either your bean or your class?