Reference documentation for @Autowired's required attribute is misleading

[aCodeRancher]

The Spring Framework 5 reference documentation for @Autowired states:

The required attribute of @Autowired is recommended over the @Required annotation on setter methods. The required attribute indicates that the property is not required for autowiring purposes. The property is ignored if it cannot be autowired.

I think it should be "required=false indicates that the property is not required...".

Please update it if you think I am correct.

[sbrannen]

Thanks for pointing that out.

The wording is indeed misleading, so we'll improve it for Spring Framework 5.2.

[sbrannen]

This has been addressed in e4fec93.

The wording of that particular sentence now reads as follows.

Setting the required attribute to false indicates that the property is not required for autowiring purposes, ...