SpringBootApplication Type — spring-boot Architecture

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core/spring-boot-autoconfigure/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/autoconfigure/SpringBootApplication.java lines 50–154

@Target(ElementType.TYPE)
@Retention(RetentionPolicy.RUNTIME)
@Documented
@Inherited
@SpringBootConfiguration
@EnableAutoConfiguration
@ComponentScan(excludeFilters = { @Filter(type = FilterType.CUSTOM, classes = TypeExcludeFilter.class),
		@Filter(type = FilterType.CUSTOM, classes = AutoConfigurationExcludeFilter.class) })
public @interface SpringBootApplication {

	/**
	 * Exclude specific auto-configuration classes such that they will never be applied.
	 * <p>
	 * Since this annotation is parsed by loading class bytecode, it is safe to specify
	 * classes here that may ultimately not be on the classpath, but only if this
	 * annotation is directly on the affected component and <b>not</b> if this annotation
	 * is used as a composed, meta-annotation. In order to use this annotation as a
	 * meta-annotation, only use the {@link #excludeName} attribute.
	 * @return the classes to exclude
	 */
	@AliasFor(annotation = EnableAutoConfiguration.class)
	Class<?>[] exclude() default {};

	/**
	 * Exclude specific auto-configuration class names such that they will never be
	 * applied.
	 * @return the class names to exclude
	 * @since 1.3.0
	 */
	@AliasFor(annotation = EnableAutoConfiguration.class)
	String[] excludeName() default {};

	/**
	 * Base packages to scan for annotated components. Use {@link #scanBasePackageClasses}
	 * for a type-safe alternative to String-based package names.
	 * <p>
	 * <strong>Note:</strong> this setting is an alias for
	 * {@link ComponentScan @ComponentScan} only. It has no effect on {@code @Entity}
	 * scanning or Spring Data repository scanning. For those you should add
	 * {@code @EntityScan} and {@code @Enable...Repositories} annotations.
	 * @return base packages to scan
	 * @since 1.3.0
	 */
	@AliasFor(annotation = ComponentScan.class, attribute = "basePackages")
	String[] scanBasePackages() default {};

	/**
	 * Type-safe alternative to {@link #scanBasePackages} for specifying the packages to
	 * scan for annotated components. The package of each class specified will be scanned.
	 * <p>
	 * Consider creating a special no-op marker class or interface in each package that
	 * serves no purpose other than being referenced by this attribute.
	 * <p>
	 * <strong>Note:</strong> this setting is an alias for
	 * {@link ComponentScan @ComponentScan} only. It has no effect on {@code @Entity}
	 * scanning or Spring Data repository scanning. For those you should add
	 * {@code @EntityScan} and {@code @Enable...Repositories} annotations.
	 * @return base packages to scan
	 * @since 1.3.0
	 */
	@AliasFor(annotation = ComponentScan.class, attribute = "basePackageClasses")
	Class<?>[] scanBasePackageClasses() default {};

	/**
	 * The {@link BeanNameGenerator} class to be used for naming detected components
	 * within the Spring container.
	 * <p>
	 * The default value of the {@link BeanNameGenerator} interface itself indicates that
	 * the scanner used to process this {@code @SpringBootApplication} annotation should
	 * use its inherited bean name generator, e.g. the default
	 * {@link AnnotationBeanNameGenerator} or any custom instance supplied to the
	 * application context at bootstrap time.
	 * @return {@link BeanNameGenerator} to use
	 * @see SpringApplication#setBeanNameGenerator(BeanNameGenerator)
	 * @since 2.3.0
	 */
	@AliasFor(annotation = ComponentScan.class, attribute = "nameGenerator")
	Class<? extends BeanNameGenerator> nameGenerator() default BeanNameGenerator.class;

	/**
	 * Specify whether {@link Bean @Bean} methods should get proxied in order to enforce
	 * bean lifecycle behavior, e.g. to return shared singleton bean instances even in
	 * case of direct {@code @Bean} method calls in user code. This feature requires
	 * method interception, implemented through a runtime-generated CGLIB subclass which
	 * comes with limitations such as the configuration class and its methods not being
	 * allowed to declare {@code final}.
	 * <p>
	 * The default is {@code true}, allowing for 'inter-bean references' within the
	 * configuration class as well as for external calls to this configuration's
	 * {@code @Bean} methods, e.g. from another configuration class. If this is not needed
	 * since each of this particular configuration's {@code @Bean} methods is
	 * self-contained and designed as a plain factory method for container use, switch
	 * this flag to {@code false} in order to avoid CGLIB subclass processing.
	 * <p>
	 * Turning off bean method interception effectively processes {@code @Bean} methods
	 * individually like when declared on non-{@code @Configuration} classes, a.k.a.
	 * "@Bean Lite Mode" (see {@link Bean @Bean's javadoc}). It is therefore behaviorally
	 * equivalent to removing the {@code @Configuration} stereotype.
	 * @since 2.2
	 * @return whether to proxy {@code @Bean} methods
	 */
	@AliasFor(annotation = Configuration.class)
	boolean proxyBeanMethods() default true;

}