Spring Overriding an event listener method always results in parent method call

In the following code the beforeEach method of the ParentConfig class will get called failing the test. See https://github.com/biergit/listenerinheritanceissue

@SpringBootTest
@Import({ChildConfig.class})
class ListenerinheritanceissueApplicationTests {
    public static int calledByParentConfigBeforeEach = 0;

    @Test
    void parentConfigBeforeTestMethodShouldNotBeCalled() {
        Assertions.assertThat(calledByParentConfigBeforeEach).isEqualTo(0);
    }

    @Configuration
    static class ParentConfig {
        @BeforeTestMethod
        public void beforeEach(BeforeTestMethodEvent e) {
            ListenerinheritanceissueApplicationTests.calledByParentConfigBeforeEach++;
        }

    }

    @Configuration
    static class ChildConfig extends ParentConfig {
        @Override
        public void beforeEach(BeforeTestMethodEvent e) {
            // no call to super so there should be no invocation at all
        }

    }

}

Comment From: rstoyanchev

Thanks for the snippet and I haven't debugged to verify, but given that these are @Configuration classes within a Test class, is it possible they are each treated as configuration files, i.e. irrespective of @Import.

Comment From: biergit

Hey @rstoyanchev. You are right. I was wondering how to override an @EventListener implementation. I had a look at https://stackoverflow.com/a/66706450 and now managed to do what I want like this:

@Configuration
    static class ParentConfig {

        @EventListener(value = BeforeTestMethodEvent.class,id = "parent")
        public void beforeEach(BeforeTestMethodEvent e) {
            ListenerinheritanceissueApplicationTests.calledByParentConfigBeforeEach++;
        }

    }

    @Configuration
    static class ChildConfig extends ParentConfig {

        @Autowired
        private ApplicationEventMulticaster eventMulticaster;
        @EventListener(ContextRefreshedEvent.class)
        void removeParentEventListener(ContextRefreshedEvent e) {
            eventMulticaster.removeApplicationListeners(l -> {
                return l instanceof SmartApplicationListener
                        && ((SmartApplicationListener) l).getListenerId().equals("parent");
            });
        }
        @Override
        public void beforeEach(BeforeTestMethodEvent e) {
            // no call to super so there should be no invocation at all
        }

    }