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)

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