Unable to use Lombok with Java 11

TL;DR

Upgrade Lombok as a dependency and as a IDE plugin (IntelliJ, NetBeans, Eclipse) and enable Annotation Processing in IDEs settings.


Latest version of Lombok and/or IntelliJ plugin perfectly supports Java 11.

https://projectlombok.org/changelog

v1.18.4 (October 30th, 2018)

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  • PLATFORM: Many improvements for lombok's JDK10/11 support.
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https://github.com/mplushnikov/lombok-intellij-plugin

Provides support for lombok annotations to write great Java code with IntelliJ IDEA.

Last version (0.23) released on 17.12.2018

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  • Tested and supports IntelliJ versions: 2016.2, 2016.3, 2017.X, 2018.X

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Lombok project dependency

Make sure you have Lombok dependency added to your project. This plugin does not automatically add it for you.

Please Note: Using newest version of the Lombok dependency is recommended, but does not guarantee that all the features introduced will be available. See Lombok changelog for more details.

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So please update your lombok/plugin version to the latest ones. Should work like a charm.


For eclipse users you will have to install lombok into eclipse. Please follow the instruction from here https://projectlombok.org/setup/eclipse