Better way to only use callsuper in @EqualsAndHashCode and @ToString?

Wouldn't simply

@ToString(callSuper = true, of = {})

work? Lombok knows nothing about the superclass fields (as this information is unavailable at the time it runs) and you can't include id or exclude name. All you can do is to make it call super.toString(). When you include no fields at all, then you get something like

Employee(super=Resource(43, Larvalis, [email protected]))

which may or mayn't be what you want. You could instead write

public String toString() {
    return getClass().getSimpleName()
        + super.toString().replaceFirst("^[^(]+", "");
}

so you'd get just

Employee(43, Larvalis, [email protected])

Update:

The of parameter is obsolete in the meantime, see onlyExplicitlyIncluded in @Datz's answer.

I suggest using @ToString.Include / @EqualsAndHashCode.Include on the id field in the base class together with the class annotation @ToString(onlyExplicitlyIncluded = true) / @EqualsAndHashCode(onlyExplicitlyIncluded = true):

@ToString(onlyExplicitlyIncluded = true)
@EqualsAndHashCode(onlyExplicitlyIncluded = true)
public abstract class Resource {
    @Id
    @ToString.Include
    @EqualsAndHashCode.Include
    private Integer id;
    ...

The you can use @ToString(callSuper = true, onlyExplicitlyIncluded = true) / @EqualsAndHashCode(callSuper = true, onlyExplicitlyIncluded = true) on the child class(es):

@ToString(callSuper = true, onlyExplicitlyIncluded = true)
@EqualsAndHashCode(callSuper = true, onlyExplicitlyIncluded = true)
public class Employee extends Resource {
    ...

The advantages:

• it is not necessary to explicitly set the annotations default values (of = {}) (see @maaartinus answer)
• you can not forget to update the list of fields in the of = {...} / included = {...}lists
• you avoid the of annotation attribute which probably soon will be deprecated (see Javadoc).