members of Interface TypeInformation are null when AOP and Data Rest are enabled and a bean is marked @Lazy

[james-bryant]

I have encountered a very strange issue and I'm not sure what to make of it. It seems that: if AOP is enabled, Spring Data Rest is enabled, and a bean is marked @Lazy, then the constants in TypeInformation return null instead of thier expected values. I was able to create an example project that can reproduce the issue. I went ahead and submitted that to the Spring Boot guys and they sent me over here: https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/issues/40510 Here is the example project, it contains both my original test to reproduce it and the newer test created by the Spring Boot guys: lazy-proxy-issue.zip

In the first test, you can work around the issue by removing the @Lazy annotation from the bean. In the second test, removing the assignment to 'whatever' will work around the issue, as described in the ticket.