Spring - Intercepting bean creation and injecting custom proxy

Question

I have a @Controller with @Autowired fields and handler methods that I want to annotate with custom annotations.

For example,

Answer 1

I think that not, but I supose that you could autowire the proxy after creating it.

public class MyProcessor extends InstantiationAwareBeanPostProcessorAdapter
    implements BeanFactoryAware {

    private AutowireCapableBeanFactory beanFactory;

     @Override
        public Object postProcessBeforeInstantiation(Class beanClass, String beanName) throws BeansException {
            // This is where I thought I would do it, but it then skips setting fields alltogether
            if (beanClass.isAnnotationPresent(Controller.class)) {
                Object proxy = Enhancer.create(beanClass, new MyInterceptor());
                // autowire
                beanFactory.autowireBean(proxy);

                return proxy;
            }
            return null;
        }

    @Override
    public void setBeanFactory(BeanFactory beanFactory) throws BeansException {
        this.beanFactory = (AutowireCapableBeanFactory) beanFactory;

    }

}

Other alternative is to create a Spring AOP Proxy (using ProxyFactory) in postProcessAfterInitialization method. For this way AbstractAutoProxyCreator could be useful. See BeanNameAutoProxyCreator as sample. But imho, an annotation pointcut (Nicholas answer) do the same and is simpler.