Spring context fails to load when bean id=repositoryRestMvcConfiguration for spring data rest config [DATAREST-365]

Adelino Rodrigues opened DATAREST-365 and commented

A web module with following configuration

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
	xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
	xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc" xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="
		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
		http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
		http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd
		http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
		http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd
		http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop
		http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop.xsd">

	<context:component-scan base-package="com.myapp" />

	<mvc:annotation-driven />

	<mvc:default-servlet-handler />

	<bean id="repositoryRestMvcConfiguration"
		class="com.myapp.web.config.SpringDataRestConfiguration" />

</beans>

and with

package com.myapp.web.config;

@Configuration
@Import(RepositoryRestMvcConfiguration.class)
public class SpringDataRestConfiguration extends RepositoryRestMvcConfiguration {
// ...
}

will throw the following exception at start up:

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCurrentlyInCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'repositoryRelProvider': Requested bean is currently in creation: Is there an unresolvable circular reference?
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.beforeSingletonCreation(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:335)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:222)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:298)
	at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:193)

Affects: 2.1.2 (Dijkstra SR2)