Lazy Initialization in Grails Broken?!

Grails

1. Start the spring boot app grails-lazy-issue via ./gradlew bootRun
2. Notice the bean wiring output is logged during boot time

The lazy beans are being eagerly loaded.

Workaround?

Stop application and uncomment resources.groovy code and restart.

     fooService(FooService){ bean ->
            bean.lazyInit = true
        }

The bean is now loaded lazily, but only because the service bean is lazy loaded.

Adding the following causes the bean to still be eagerly loaded

     sampleBean(SampleBean){ bean ->
         bean.lazyInit = true
     }

Spring Boot

1. Start the spring boot app spring-boot-lazy via ./gradlew bootRun
2. Hit endpoint http://localhost:8080/index notice the output is clean
3. Hit endpoint http://localhost:8080/foo/index notice the bean wiring output is logged

The lazy wiring worked as expected