generator-jhipster: Can't compile with lombok

Overview of the issue

./mvnw and mvn clean install fail when adding lombok dependency but run successfully when launched from Intellij IDE Find the error below :

INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] COMPILATION ERROR :
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] src/main/java/web/rest/core/service/impl/ProductServiceImpl.java:[18,29] cannot find symbol
  symbol:   method builder()
  location: class com.test.one.web.rest.core.model.Product

Motivation for or Use Case

Use lombok annotations for my custom POJOs setter/getter and builder.

Maven build failed.

Reproduce the error

add lombok dependency in the pom.xml

        <!-- jhipster-needle-maven-add-dependency -->
        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.projectlombok/lombok -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
            <artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
            <version>1.16.16</version>
            <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>

create new java class as below

import lombok.Builder;
import lombok.Data;

@Data
@Builder
public class Product {
    private String name;
}

Run ./mvnw or maven clean install

JHipster Version(s)

generator-jhipster@4.4.1

JHipster configuration


{
  "generator-jhipster": {
    "promptValues": {
      "packageName": "com.test.one",
      "nativeLanguage": "fr"
    },
    "jhipsterVersion": "4.4.1",
    "baseName": "airpayapi",
    "packageName": "com.test.one",
    "packageFolder": "com/test/one",
    "serverPort": "8081",
    "authenticationType": "jwt",
    "hibernateCache": "hazelcast",
    "clusteredHttpSession": false,
    "websocket": false,
    "databaseType": "sql",
    "devDatabaseType": "h2Disk",
    "prodDatabaseType": "postgresql",
    "searchEngine": "elasticsearch",
    "messageBroker": false,
    "serviceDiscoveryType": "eureka",
    "buildTool": "maven",
    "enableSocialSignIn": false,
    "enableTranslation": true,
    "applicationType": "microservice",
    "testFrameworks": [
      "gatling"
    ],
    "jhiPrefix": "jhi",
    "skipClient": true,
    "skipUserManagement": true,
    "nativeLanguage": "fr",
    "languages": [
      "fr",
      "en"
    ],
    "clientPackageManager": "yarn"
  }
}

About this issue

Original URL
State: closed
Created 7 years ago
Comments: 18 (10 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

The maven project Jhipster generated uses a annotationProcessorPaths in the maven compile plugin, that’s why it cannot look up the latest lombok unless we specify lombok as one of the annotation processor.

Working code is as followed.

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>${maven-compiler-plugin.version}</version>
    <configuration>
        <annotationProcessorPaths>
            <path>
                <groupId>org.mapstruct</groupId>
                <artifactId>mapstruct-processor</artifactId>
                <version>${mapstruct.version}</version>
            </path>
            <!-- For JPA static metamodel generation -->
            <path>
                <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
                <artifactId>hibernate-jpamodelgen</artifactId>
                <version>${hibernate.version}</version>
            </path>
			<path>
                <groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
                <artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
                <version>1.16.18</version>
            </path>
        </annotationProcessorPaths>
    </configuration>
</plugin>

+27

jimmysyss on Oct 8, 2017

Because we do so much more than Spring Initializer… I’ve spent so many days on projects failing because of Lombok, I have no idea why people want to use this. There’s one “smart” guy who gains a few minutes for not generating his getter/setter, and then you have whole teams stuck, production system failing, and consultants billed to solve the issue. That thing is costing so many $$$. Note that I shouldn’t complain too much, I’m one the guys who are paid to solve those issues… Already happened on 4 different projects, and counting…

jdubois on Jun 17, 2017

Yes and I’ll need to update my list of days lost because of Lombok… Why the hell do people use it?

jdubois on Jun 16, 2017

We use Lombok to avoid writing annoying setter/getter and it inject builder pattern too 😃 @PierreBesson I don’t understand, JHispter is just a Spring Boot + Angular project generator right ? Why is Lombok working in a Spring Initializr project and not in in a JHipster one ?

freemanpolys on Jun 17, 2017

“smart”, I said “smart” 😃

jdubois on Jun 17, 2017