@Getter @Setter annotation cannot be resolved to a type

Question

I am trying to automatize the getter and setter methods in my JavaBean.

Since, method and field naming conventions are described for Beans @ Naming Convention , there has to be a way to use this conventions in-order to avoid the boiler plate code such as writing getter and setter methods for every bean. I found one such way here .

I am using Eclipse Helios IDE with Java SE 6 in my Windows machine. Though Eclipse do provides a way to generate getter and setter methods without explicitly writing them, using annotations would make the code much more cleaner and readable.

However, when I write the following code in my Eclipse I get the following error @ Compile-time:

    private @Getter @Setter int price;

Error :

Getter cannot be resolved to a type.
Setter cannot be resolved to a type.

How do I resolve it??

Answer 1

@Getter and @Setter are not part of Java. Project Lombok has annotations with these names, so you should look into how to set it up.

Answer 2

People who may still be not getting @Getter and @Setter recognized by eclipse you have to follow the installation instruction for lombok.jar. For eclipse you will have to

On eclipse Execute lombok.jar (doubleclick it, or run java -jar lombok.jar).

then restart eclipse only then eclipse will recognize the @Getter and @Setter. Simply having lombok.jar in build path may not solve this on eclipse.

Answer 3

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
        <artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
        <version>1.16.6</version>
        <scope>provided</scope>
    </dependency>

I resolved by using this dependency in pom.xml.

Answer 4

Even though it works, you shouldn't make it a regular practice. Multiple people working on the same code may not have the same setup that you have.

We spent almost a day trying to figure out why something wouldn't compile correctly on our build server and turned out it was caused by some annotations that were auto-generated by eclipes.