Support new Hooking Point.

[chickenchickenlove]

Hi, Spring Team.
This is chickenchickenlove, huge fan of you all.

I suggest adding a new Hooking point.
How about adding a new Hooking Point between SmartLifeCycle#start() and @PostConstruct?
Sometimes, IMHO, it could be useful at times.

It would be great if it could be used in a similar convention to ApplicationEvent and @EventListener.

@EventListener(BeforeSmartLifeCycleStart.class)
public void doSomething(){
...
}

Thanks for reading this. 🙇‍♂️

[snicoll]

Sometimes, IMHO, it could be useful at times.

Thanks for the suggestion but, without at least one concrete example, this issue is not actionable I am afraid. Before we consider adding an extra API to the core framework, we need to understand what's lacking with what we have and how we could improve it.

[artembilan]

I think SmartInitializingSingleton.afterSingletonsInstantiated() is the way to go for this use-case.
This way all the beans have called their afterPropertiesSet() and no SmartLifeCycle.start() called yet.

[snicoll]

That was one callback I had in mind indeed, but we can't know for sure until @chickenchickenlove shares why they're asking for another hook point.

[artembilan]

In my feeling, according to the related Spring for Apache Kafka PR, the solution lays indeed in the afterSingletonsInstantiated().
And this request was done because @chickenchickenlove had not been aware about SmartInitializingSingleton.

[snicoll]

OK I am trusting you have more context on that so let's close this.