Caching of autowire candidate metadata for injection point matching

Closes gh-24904

Author: jhoeller

spring-beans/src/main/java/org/springframework/beans/factory/support/DefaultListableBeanFactory.java

@@ -162,6 +162,9 @@ public class DefaultListableBeanFactory extends AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFacto
 	/** Map of bean definition objects, keyed by bean name. */
 	private final Map<String, BeanDefinition> beanDefinitionMap = new ConcurrentHashMap<>(256);
 
+	/** Map from bean name to merged BeanDefinitionHolder. */
+	private final Map<String, BeanDefinitionHolder> mergedBeanDefinitionHolders = new ConcurrentHashMap<>(256);
+
 	/** Map of singleton and non-singleton bean names, keyed by dependency type. */
 	private final Map<Class<?>, String[]> allBeanNamesByType = new ConcurrentHashMap<>(64);
 
@@ -759,8 +762,11 @@ protected boolean isAutowireCandidate(String beanName, RootBeanDefinition mbd,
 		if (mbd.isFactoryMethodUnique && mbd.factoryMethodToIntrospect == null) {
 			new ConstructorResolver(this).resolveFactoryMethodIfPossible(mbd);
 		}
-		return resolver.isAutowireCandidate(
-				new BeanDefinitionHolder(mbd, beanName, getAliases(beanDefinitionName)), descriptor);
+		BeanDefinitionHolder holder = (beanName.equals(beanDefinitionName) ?
+				this.mergedBeanDefinitionHolders.computeIfAbsent(beanName,
+						key -> new BeanDefinitionHolder(mbd, beanName, getAliases(beanDefinitionName))) :
+				new BeanDefinitionHolder(mbd, beanName, getAliases(beanDefinitionName)));
+		return resolver.isAutowireCandidate(holder, descriptor);
 	}
 
 	@Override
@@ -783,9 +789,16 @@ public Iterator<String> getBeanNamesIterator() {
 		return iterator;
 	}
 
+	@Override
+	protected void clearMergedBeanDefinition(String beanName) {
+		super.clearMergedBeanDefinition(beanName);
+		this.mergedBeanDefinitionHolders.remove(beanName);
+	}
+
 	@Override
 	public void clearMetadataCache() {
 		super.clearMetadataCache();
+		this.mergedBeanDefinitionHolders.clear();
 		clearByTypeCache();
 	}