You can annotate any field with @Getter
and/or @Setter
, to let lombok generate the default getter/setter automatically.
A default getter simply returns the field, and is named getFoo
if the field is called foo
(or isFoo
if the field's type is boolean
). A default setter is named setFoo
if the field is called foo
, returns void
, and takes 1 parameter of the same type as the field. It simply sets the field to this value.
The generated getter/setter method will be public
unless you explicitly specify an AccessLevel
, as shown in the example below. Legal access levels are PUBLIC
, PROTECTED
, PACKAGE
, and PRIVATE
.
You can also put a @Getter
and/or @Setter
annotation on a class. In that case, it's as if you annotate all the non-static fields in that class with the annotation.
You can always manually disable getter/setter generation for any field by using the special AccessLevel.NONE
access level. This lets you override the behaviour of a @Getter
, @Setter
or @Data
annotation on a class.
To put annotations on the generated method, you can use onMethod=@__({@AnnotationsHere})
; to put annotations on the only parameter of a generated setter method, you can use onParam=@__({@AnnotationsHere})
. Be careful though! This is an experimental feature. For more details see the documentation on the onX feature.
NEW in lombok v1.12.0: javadoc on the field will now be copied to generated getters and setters. Normally, all text is copied, and @return
is moved to the getter, whilst @param
lines are moved to the setter. Moved means: Deleted from the field's javadoc. It is also possible to define unique text for each getter/setter. To do that, you create a 'section' named GETTER
and/or SETTER
. A section is a line in your javadoc containing 2 or more dashes, then the text 'GETTER' or 'SETTER', followed by 2 or more dashes, and nothing else on the line. If you use sections, @return
and @param
stripping for that section is no longer done (move the @return
or @param
line into the section).
lombok.accessors.chain
= [true
| false
] (default: false)true
, generated setters will return this
(instead of void
). An explicitly configured chain
parameter of an @Accessors
annotation takes precedence over this setting.lombok.accessors.fluent
= [true
| false
] (default: false)true
, generated getters and setters will not be prefixed with the bean-standard 'get
, is
or set
; instead, the methods will use the same name as the field (minus prefixes). An explicitly configured chain
parameter of an @Accessors
annotation takes precedence over this setting.lombok.accessors.prefix
+= a field prefix (default: empty list)+=
operator. Inherited prefixes from parent config files can be removed with the -=
operator. Lombok will strip any matching field prefix from the name of a field in order to determine the name of the getter/setter to generate. For example, if m
is one of the prefixes listed in this setting, then a field named mFoobar
will result in a getter named getFoobar()
, not getMFoobar()
. An explicitly configured prefix
parameter of an @Accessors
annotation takes precedence over this setting.lombok.getter.noIsPrefix
= [true
| false
] (default: false)true
, getters generated for boolean
fields will use the get
prefix instead of the defaultis
prefix, and any generated code that calls getters, such as @ToString
, will also use get
instead of is
lombok.setter.flagUsage
= [warning
| error
] (default: not set)@Setter
as a warning or error if configured.lombok.getter.flagUsage
= [warning
| error
] (default: not set)@Getter
as a warning or error if configured.For generating the method names, the first character of the field, if it is a lowercase character, is title-cased, otherwise, it is left unmodified. Then, get/set/is is prefixed.
No method is generated if any method already exists with the same name (case insensitive) and same parameter count. For example, getFoo()
will not be generated if there's already a method getFoo(String... x)
even though it is technically possible to make the method. This caveat exists to prevent confusion. If the generation of a method is skipped for this reason, a warning is emitted instead. Varargs count as 0 to N parameters. You can mark any method with @lombok.experimental.Tolerate
to hide them from lombok.
For boolean
fields that start with is
immediately followed by a title-case letter, nothing is prefixed to generate the getter name.
Any variation on boolean
will not result in using the is
prefix instead of the get
prefix; for example,
returning java.lang.Boolean
results in a get
prefix, not an is
prefix.
Any annotations named @NonNull
(case insensitive) on the field are interpreted as: This field must not ever hold
null. Therefore, these annotations result in an explicit null check in the generated setter. Also, these
annotations (as well as any annotation named @Nullable
or @CheckForNull
) are copied to setter parameter and getter method.
You can annotate a class with a @Getter
or @Setter
annotation. Doing so is equivalent to annotating all non-static fields
in that class with that annotation. @Getter
/@Setter
annotations on fields take precedence over the ones on classes.
Using the AccessLevel.NONE
access level simply generates nothing. It's useful only in combination with
@Data
or a class-wide @Getter
or @Setter
.
@Getter
can also be used on enums. @Setter
can't, not for a technical reason, but
for a pragmatic one: Setters on enums are an extremely bad idea.