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Description
Spring Framework 6.2 has introduced a new type of beans using @Fallback, which complements the existing @Bean(defaultCandidate=false) and this issue is about introducing an API counterpart that would allow one to handle such beans without relying on the BeanFactory.
Spring Boot is using ObjectProvider with convenience method to sort beans according to their order. This abstraction cannot be used as it mimics the behavior of autowiring-by-type. A similar API where we'd be able to continue using the sorting algorithm would be much more welcome.
Our current workaround would be to use this.beanFactory.getBeansOfType(beanType, false, false) but this requires to inject the BeanFactory in infrastructure code that didn't need it previously.