Which lombok annotation fits best on JPA entity?

Question

I use project lombok and Hibernate together. I'm wondering which lombok annotation should be generally used on entity classes.

First candidate is @Data but it generates setters for all non-final fields. Since id field is not final I have setId() method which I don't want.

The second candidate is @Value but then id field is marked as final and that's why it has to be manually assigned by an application.

I could also use @Builder but it has the same issue as @Data.

To solve problem with @Data I can write my own private setter for id field to override generated one. But maybe there is a better way? What is the best practice in this case?

Answer 1

i think you're mistaken on what @Data does. @Data combines a bunch of other annotations into one. it doesn't generate code for you. it performs annotations on code you have written.

I highly recommend reading Does the project lombok data annotation create a constructor of any kind

This link actually references the appropriate lombok data page itself.