Lombok not working in a Netbeans project

Question

I want to use Lombok in a project to use @Getter and @Setter.

I included using Maven:

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
        <artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
        <version>1.12.6</version>
        <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>

Import is OK for Netbeans:

import lombok.Getter;
import lombok.Setter;

But auto setters and getters don't work (no autocompletion / "cannot find symbol ...").

Strange thing is that for another project I have it's working fine! But I can't figure the differences.

I tested to:

• change the lombok version (even the last): for any version, the import don't work anymore

• build the project with Maven: it's OK!

• use Eclipse: it's OK! (but I am the only one to decide unfortunately)

=> so I'm sure this is a Netbeans related problem

• enable annotation processing, as I've seen in tutorials=> I don't have such option in my project properties

Any idea ?

Answer 1

In Netbeans 8.2 using Apache Maven 3.5.4 use Lombok 1.18.4 or much older 1.16.16.

In Netbeans 10.0/9.0 using Apache Maven 3.5.4 use Lombok 1.18.4, older versions of Lombok are really buggy when Compile On Save is used in Netbeans 10.0/9.0

I updated Lombok to a new version

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
    <artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
    <scope>provided</scope>
    <version>1.18.8</version> <!--1.18.8 for Netbeans 9/10 OR 1.16.16 for Netbeans 8 with Java 8 -->
</dependency>

NB

• For maven-compiler-plugin, remove any annotationProcessorPaths to do with Lombok in the maven-compiler-plugin
• Remove any Lombok maven plugins

This is not needed, as Maven and Netbeans does this out of the box. You only need the right Lombok dependency in Maven.