Overview

The findAutowiredAnnotation() method in AutowiredAnnotationBeanPostProcessor fully supports finding @Autowired as a meta-annotation; however, the isRequired() method in QualifierAnnotationAutowireCandidateResolver only finds @Autowired as a "directly present" annotation without any support for meta-annotations.

For consistency, and to avoid bugs, we should always support @Autowired as a meta-annotation.

Related Issues

• Consistently support @Validated as a meta-annotation at arbitrary depths #36305
• Consistently support @Lazy as a meta-annotation at arbitrary depths #36306
• Avoid duplicate required attribute lookup for @Autowired annotations #36314