Support variable resolution of wildcard types

Includes cleanup of "varaible" typos in ResolvableTypeTests.

Closes gh-24150

spring-core/src/main/java/org/springframework/core/ResolvableType.java

@@ -872,6 +872,12 @@ public class ResolvableType implements Serializable {
 				return forType(ownerType, this.variableResolver).resolveVariable(variable);
 			}
 		}
+		if (this.type instanceof WildcardType) {
+			ResolvableType resolved = resolveType().resolveVariable(variable);
+			if (resolved != null) {
+				return resolved;
+			}
+		}
 		if (this.variableResolver != null) {
 			return this.variableResolver.resolveVariable(variable);
 		}
@@ -997,7 +1003,7 @@ public class ResolvableType implements Serializable {
 	 * {@link Class#isAssignableFrom}, which this serves as a wrapper for.
 	 * For example: {@code ResolvableType.forRawClass(List.class)}.
 	 * @param clazz the class to introspect ({@code null} is semantically
-	 * equivalent to {@code Object.class} for typical use cases here}
+	 * equivalent to {@code Object.class} for typical use cases here)
 	 * @return a {@link ResolvableType} for the specified class
 	 * @since 4.2
 	 * @see #forClass(Class)
@@ -1485,10 +1491,10 @@ public class ResolvableType implements Serializable {
 		@Override
 		@Nullable
 		public ResolvableType resolveVariable(TypeVariable<?> variable) {
+			TypeVariable<?> variableToCompare = SerializableTypeWrapper.unwrap(variable);
 			for (int i = 0; i < this.variables.length; i++) {
-				TypeVariable<?> v1 = SerializableTypeWrapper.unwrap(this.variables[i]);
-				TypeVariable<?> v2 = SerializableTypeWrapper.unwrap(variable);
-				if (ObjectUtils.nullSafeEquals(v1, v2)) {
+				TypeVariable<?> resolvedVariable = SerializableTypeWrapper.unwrap(this.variables[i]);
+				if (ObjectUtils.nullSafeEquals(resolvedVariable, variableToCompare)) {
 					return this.generics[i];
 				}
 			}

spring-core/src/test/java/org/springframework/core/ResolvableTypeTests.java

@@ -684,38 +684,31 @@ public class ResolvableTypeTests {
 
 	@Test
 	public void resolveBoundedTypeVariableResult() throws Exception {
-		ResolvableType type = ResolvableType.forMethodReturnType(Methods.class.getMethod("boundedTypeVaraibleResult"));
+		ResolvableType type = ResolvableType.forMethodReturnType(Methods.class.getMethod("boundedTypeVariableResult"));
 		assertThat(type.resolve(), equalTo((Class) CharSequence.class));
 	}
 
 	@Test
-	public void resolveVariableNotFound() throws Exception {
-		ResolvableType type = ResolvableType.forMethodReturnType(Methods.class.getMethod("typedReturn"));
-		assertThat(type.resolve(), nullValue());
+	public void resolveBoundedTypeVariableWildcardResult() throws Exception {
+		ResolvableType type = ResolvableType.forMethodReturnType(Methods.class.getMethod("boundedTypeVariableWildcardResult"));
+		assertThat(type.getGeneric(1).asCollection().resolveGeneric(), equalTo((Class) CharSequence.class));
 	}
 
 	@Test
-	public void resolveTypeVaraibleFromMethodReturn() throws Exception {
+	public void resolveVariableNotFound() throws Exception {
 		ResolvableType type = ResolvableType.forMethodReturnType(Methods.class.getMethod("typedReturn"));
 		assertThat(type.resolve(), nullValue());
 	}
 
 	@Test
-	public void resolveTypeVaraibleFromMethodReturnWithInstanceClass() throws Exception {
-		ResolvableType type = ResolvableType.forMethodReturnType(
-				Methods.class.getMethod("typedReturn"), TypedMethods.class);
-		assertThat(type.resolve(), equalTo((Class) String.class));
-	}
-
-	@Test
-	public void resolveTypeVaraibleFromSimpleInterfaceType() {
+	public void resolveTypeVariableFromSimpleInterfaceType() {
 		ResolvableType type = ResolvableType.forClass(
 				MySimpleInterfaceType.class).as(MyInterfaceType.class);
 		assertThat(type.resolveGeneric(), equalTo((Class) String.class));
 	}
 
 	@Test
-	public void resolveTypeVaraibleFromSimpleCollectionInterfaceType() {
+	public void resolveTypeVariableFromSimpleCollectionInterfaceType() {
 		ResolvableType type = ResolvableType.forClass(
 				MyCollectionInterfaceType.class).as(MyInterfaceType.class);
 		assertThat(type.resolveGeneric(), equalTo((Class) Collection.class));
@@ -723,14 +716,14 @@ public class ResolvableTypeTests {
 	}
 
 	@Test
-	public void resolveTypeVaraibleFromSimpleSuperclassType() {
+	public void resolveTypeVariableFromSimpleSuperclassType() {
 		ResolvableType type = ResolvableType.forClass(
 				MySimpleSuperclassType.class).as(MySuperclassType.class);
 		assertThat(type.resolveGeneric(), equalTo((Class) String.class));
 	}
 
 	@Test
-	public void resolveTypeVaraibleFromSimpleCollectionSuperclassType() {
+	public void resolveTypeVariableFromSimpleCollectionSuperclassType() {
 		ResolvableType type = ResolvableType.forClass(
 				MyCollectionSuperclassType.class).as(MySuperclassType.class);
 		assertThat(type.resolveGeneric(), equalTo((Class) Collection.class));
@@ -1459,7 +1452,9 @@ public class ResolvableTypeTests {
 
 		void charSequenceParameter(List<CharSequence> cs);
 
-		<R extends CharSequence & Serializable> R boundedTypeVaraibleResult();
+		<R extends CharSequence & Serializable> R boundedTypeVariableResult();
+
+		Map<String, ? extends List<? extends CharSequence>> boundedTypeVariableWildcardResult();
 
 		void nested(Map<Map<String, Integer>, Map<Byte, Long>> p);