Lombok issues with Java 8

Question

I just upgrade to Intellij idea 14 and Java 8 and I had on mind to upgrade my project to Java version 8 as well, to start using some new features. But After configure the Intellij properly to use Java 8 I have still the issue with Lombok. Looks like there´s a conflict between Java 8 and lombok because now my @Getter and @Setter annotations do not work anymore.

The version of lombok is 1.10.8. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Short answer:

Lombok supports Java 8, and has done so since version 1.12.2.

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Long answer

Lombok supports Java 8, and has done so since version 1.12.2 (October 10th, 2013) according to the changelog:

PLATFORM: Initial JDK8 support, without affecting existing support for JDK6 and 7. Issue #451. While lombok will now work on JDK8 / javac8, and netbeans 7.4 and up, lombok does not (yet) support new language features introduced with java8, such as lambda expressions. Support for these features will be added in a future version.

Since then further Java 8 support has been implemented:

• v1.12.6 (March 6th, 2014)

  PLATFORM: Initial JDK8 support for eclipse's alpha support in kepler. Issue #597

• v1.14.0 "Branching Cobra" (May 27th, 2014)

  BUGFIX: Usage of @SneakyThrows with a javac from JDK8 with -target 1.8 would result in a post compiler error. Issue #655
  BUGFIX: Major work on improving support for JDK8, both for javac and eclipse.

• v1.14.6 (September 2nd, 2014)

  BUGFIX: Usage of val would break starting with JDK8 release 1.8.0_20. Issue #731

In other words, the newest version of Lombok should be able to work with Java 8 fairly well, and since version 1.12.2, Java 8 code without the new language features should work.

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EDIT: As Roel pointed out, there is currently (8th january 2015) an open bug specifying that one specific Lombok feature (val) stopped working for 1.14.8.

This bug was closed 16th November 2015.