Description
Overview
During my recent analysis of our @MockitoSpyBean
support, it became apparent that we do not need the proxyTargetAware
attribute.
The proxyTargetAware
attribute was originally introduced in Spring Boot's @SpyBean
support in order to address spring-projects/spring-boot#5837; however, Spring Framework's @MockitoSpyBean
support works differently and does not modify existing Spring AOP advice chains. In other words, setting that flag to true
does not make anything "proxy target aware". In addition, we are not aware of any compelling use cases for which one would want to set that flag to false
.
In light of the above, we should remove the proxyTargetAware
attribute from @MockitoSpyBean
while keeping the underlying feature in tact (i.e., transparent verification for spies created via @MockitoSpyBean
), which was the behavior when proxyTargetAware
was set to true
(the default value for the attribute).