该方法刚开始会先判断是否进行自动装配，而后会从META-INF/spring-autoconfigure-metadata.properties读取元数据与元数据的相关属性，紧接着会调用getCandidateConfigurations方法：
/**
* Return the auto-configuration class names that should be considered. By default
* this method will load candidates using {@link SpringFactoriesLoader} with
* {@link #getSpringFactoriesLoaderFactoryClass()}.
* @param metadata the source metadata
* @param attributes the {@link #getAttributes(AnnotationMetadata) annotation
* attributes}
* @return a list of candidate configurations
*/
protected List<String> getCandidateConfigurations(AnnotationMetadata metadata,
AnnotationAttributes attributes) {
List<String> configurations = SpringFactoriesLoader.loadFactoryNames(
getSpringFactoriesLoaderFactoryClass(), getBeanClassLoader());
Assert.notEmpty(configurations,
"No auto configuration classes found in META-INF/spring.factories. If you "
+ "are using a custom packaging, make sure that file is correct.");
return configurations;
}
/**
* Return the class used by {@link SpringFactoriesLoader} to load configuration
* candidates.
* @return the factory class
*/
protected Class<?> getSpringFactoriesLoaderFactoryClass() {
return EnableAutoConfiguration.class;
}
在这里又遇到我们的老熟人了--SpringFactoryiesLoader, 它会读取META-INF/spring.factories下的EnableAutoConfiguration的配置，紧接着在进行排除与过滤，进而得到需要装配的类。最后让所有配置在META-INF/spring.factories下的AutoConfigurationImportListener执行AutoConfigurationImportEvent事件，代码如下：
private void fireAutoConfigurationImportEvents(List<String> configurations,
Set<String> exclusions) {
List<AutoConfigurationImportListener> listeners = getAutoConfigurationImportListeners();
if (!listeners.isEmpty()) {
AutoConfigurationImportEvent event = new AutoConfigurationImportEvent(this,
configurations, exclusions);
for (AutoConfigurationImportListener listener : listeners) {
invokeAwareMethods(listener);
listener.onAutoConfigurationImportEvent(event);
}
}
}
protected List<AutoConfigurationImportListener> getAutoConfigurationImportListeners() {
return SpringFactoriesLoader.loadFactories(AutoConfigurationImportListener.class,
this.beanClassLoader);
}
二、何时进行自动装配
在前面的环节里只是最终要确定哪些类需要被装配，在SpringBoot时何时处理这些自动装配的类呢？下面我们简要的分析一下：
2.1、AbstractApplicationContext的refresh方法：
这个方法老生常谈了其中请大家关注一下这个方法：
// Invoke factory processors registered as beans in the context.
invokeBeanFactoryPostProcessors(beanFactory);
在这里是处理BeanFactoryPostProcessor的，那么我们在来看一下这个接口BeanDefinitionRegistryPostProcessor:
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package org.springframework.beans.factory.support;
import org.springframework.beans.BeansException;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.config.BeanFactoryPostProcessor;