Dagger 2 does not generate component

Question

I totally exhausted with Dagger 2 in non-Android app (IDE is IntelliJ IDEA).

build.gradle

buildscript {
    repositories {
        maven {
            url "https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/"
        }
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath "net.ltgt.gradle:gradle-apt-plugin:0.9"
    }
}

apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'net.ltgt.apt'

dependencies {
    compile 'com.google.dagger:dagger:2.8'
    apt 'com.google.dagger:dagger-compiler:2.8'
    compileOnly 'javax.annotation:jsr250-api:1.0'
}

Component

@Component(modules = {MyModule.class}) public interface MyComponent {}

Module

@Module class MyModule {}

Main

DaggerMyComponent component = DaggerMyComponent.builder().build();

Compiler says

cannot find symbol DaggerMyComponent

Absolutely have no more ideas what could be wrong :(

By the way, if I run gradlew clean build --refresh-dependencies, there is no error, everything fine!

But as only I use 'Rebuild project' in IDE - error again. Possibly IDEA bug (time to go back to Eclipse)?

And yes, I have added directory with generated classes as a content root, so IDE can see DaggerMyComponent.

Answer 1

I had post the issue to JetBrains

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-169387

and the solution is in first comment.

If you use IntelliJ internal compiler for the project build you need to enable annotation processing at File | Settings | Build, Execution, Deployment | Compiler | Annotation Processors

As an alternative you can delegate build/run IDE actions to gradle. You can find the option at File | Settings | Build, Execution, Deployment | Build Tools | Gradle | Runner

In build 171.4073.35 Delegate IDE build/run actions to gradle option is set by default.