java - AutowireCapableBeanFactory.autowireBeanProperties() seems not to work for xml configured contexts -

i trying manually inject beans autowired dependency using autowirecapablebeanfactory.autowirebeanproperties(). seems work if bean should injected configured in java class. if configured in xml context file not work.

test cases:

public class injectortest {  @test public void testannotationinjector() {     annotationconfigapplicationcontext context = null;     try {         testbean testbean = new testbean();         context = new annotationconfigapplicationcontext(someserviceconfig.class);;         autowirecapablebeanfactory beanfactory = context.getautowirecapablebeanfactory();         beanfactory.autowirebeanproperties(testbean, autowirecapablebeanfactory.autowire_by_type, false);          asserttrue(testbean.getsomeservice() != null);     } {         if (context != null) {             context.close();         }     } }  @test public void testxmlinjector() {     classpathxmlapplicationcontext context = null;     try {         testbean testbean = new testbean();         context = new classpathxmlapplicationcontext("test-some-service-context.xml");         autowirecapablebeanfactory beanfactory = context.getautowirecapablebeanfactory();         beanfactory.autowirebeanproperties(testbean, autowirecapablebeanfactory.autowire_by_type, false);          asserttrue(testbean.getsomeservice() != null);     } {         if (context != null) {             context.close();         }     } }  private class testbean {      @autowired     private someservice someservice;      public someservice getsomeservice() {         return someservice;     } } 

the first test case runs successfully. second 1 fails. can explain behaviour?

here rest of code:

someservice.java

public class someservice {   public void dosomething() {     system.out.println("did something");  } } 

java context configuration

@configuration public class someserviceconfig {    @bean   public someservice someservice() {       return new someservice();   } } 

test-some-service-context.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>  <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/xmlschema-instance" xsi:schemalocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-3.0.xsd">  <bean class="webapplication.injector.someservice"></bean>  </beans> 

the second test case fails because testbean don't have setter someservice property , context don't register autowiredannotationbeanpostprocessor

so, fix add setter someservice or add <context:annotation-config/> bean definition file.