Spring ApplicationContextAotGenerator should return the initializer class name

ApplicationContextAotGenerator doesn't currently return the class name of the generated initializer and it probably should. The method name might also be better as generateApplicationContextInitializer since that's what it actually generates.

Comment From: snicoll

ApplicationContextAotGenerator doesn't currently return the class name of the generated initializer and it probably should.

I am confused. Isn't that the third argument of that method?

The method name might also be better as generateApplicationContextInitializer since that's what it actually generates.

I don't agree with this. This processes the context, kicks of the AOT engine and honors all sort of callbacks that generate everything related to the context. This includes build-time optimizations. From that perspective, even the third argument looks a bit off IMO. I wonder if returning some sort of report where contributions could state what they've done and potential links to resources could be helpful.

Comment From: philwebb

I am confused. Isn't that the third argument of that method?

I missed that, for some reason I thought it generated the class name directly.