Lombok with IDEA 13: Cannot find symbol

Question

I have tried using Lombok on Intellij IDEA 13 Ultimate. However. I get the famous error "cannot find symbol" for all the methods that should have been available when I am using specific annotations for example the once I use as annotations are @Builder, @AllArgsConstructor and @Data.

I have already set my compiler to enable annotation processing and I have looked deeply into it, but with no solution of how to solve it.

Any advice or tips would be nice.

Have you installed the lombok plugin for IDEA? https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/6317 — Magnilex, Apr 17 '15 at 07:45
Are you using Maven? Have you made sure that the jar is on the classpath? — Magnilex, Apr 17 '15 at 08:17

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 23 '16 at 20:24

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Kind of old question here, but I came across the same problem today. I had to do two things to make it work:

Set annotation processing on: Settings -> Compiler -> Annotation Processors
Change from ajc to javac for the project: Compiler -> Java Compiler

you of course also need the Lombok plugin.

answered Mar 23 '16 at 20:24

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If i do this, Lombok works, but aspectJ doesn't. Am I missing something? – Chry007 Sep 27 '18 at 07:23
did that, but i also had to (obviously) install lombok plugin. – chenchuk Aug 10 '19 at 18:53
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not working for me , having same error :java: cannot find symbol symbol: class __ – prashant kute Nov 10 '21 at 11:02
@prashantkute are you able to fix your issue. i am also facing the same – Rishi Bansal May 20 '22 at 12:52

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 17 '20 at 15:14

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In my case apart from enabling Annotation Processing and installing Lombok Plugin I had to rebuild project by Build -> Rebuild Project

answered Dec 17 '20 at 15:14

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score 1 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:07

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I was having a similar issue, but resolved it by upgrading to IDEA 15.0.2 and Lombok plugin 0.9.6.14. I had to restart IDEA several times before all of the getters/setters generated by Lombok were resolved.

I also found this related answer, but it didn't seem to help my problem. It may help you if upgrading does not.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:07

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answered Dec 29 '15 at 22:40

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 29 '22 at 18:59

In my case non of methods works. But I found solution for my case. I needed to add to my Gradle dependencies list of

dependencies {
    compileOnly 'org.projectlombok:lombok:1.18.22'
}

one more line

dependencies {
    compileOnly 'org.projectlombok:lombok:1.18.22'
    annotationProcessor 'org.projectlombok:lombok:1.18.22'
}

With such combination you even don't need enabling Annotation Processors from @Vegard answer.

Lombok with IDEA 13: Cannot find symbol

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