Generate constructor for required super fields

Question

I've the following class:

import lombok.Getter;
import lombok.RequiredArgsConstructor;

@Getter
@RequiredArgsConstructor
public abstract class EmailData {

    private final Iterable<String> recipients;
}

and the following subclass:

import lombok.Getter;

@Getter
public class PasswordRecoveryEmail extends EmailData {

    private final String token;
}

Is there any possibility to annotate PasswordRecoveryEmail in such a way that a constructor for both required class and superclass fields will be generated?

Answer 1

The @…Constructor annotations will not explicitly call a constructor, so they all rely on a default constructor doing a proper job. So, no, you cannot convince Lombok to create these constructors for you.

The closest you can get it is to either:

1. Provide a default constructor (no arguments) in EmailData that is protected and assigns some reasonable value to recipients.
2. Write the required-args constructor for PasswordRecoveryEmail yourself.

Inheritance often is not quite covered by Lombok in my experience.