Configuration system

Lombok, made to order: Configure lombok features in one place for your entire project or even your workspace.

Overview

NEW in lombok 1.14: You can create lombok.config files in any directory and put configuration directives in it. These apply to all source files in this directory and all child directories.
The configuration system is particularly useful for configurable aspects of lombok which tend to be the same across an entire project, such as the name of your log variable. The configuration system can also be used to tell lombok to flag any usage of some lombok feature you don't like as a warning or even an error.

Usually, a user of lombok puts a lombok.config file with their preferences in a workspace or project root directory, with the special config.stopBubbling = true key to tell lombok this is your root directory. You can then create lombok.config files in any subdirectories (generally representing projects or source packages) with different settings.

An up to date list of all configuration keys supported by your version of lombok can be generated by running:

java -jar lombok.jar config -g --verbose

The output of the config tool is itself a valid lombok.config file.
The config tool can also be used to display the complete lombok configuration used for any given directory or source file by supplying these as arguments.

A sample of available configuration options (see the feature pages of the lombok features for their related config keys, as well as java -jar lombok.jar config -g for the complete list):

lombok.accessors.chain: If set to true, generated setters will 'chain' by default (They will return this instead of having a void return type).
lombok.accessors.fluent: If set to true, generated setters and getters will simply be named the same as the field name, without a get or set prefix.
lombok.anyConstructor.suppressConstructorProperties: If true, lombok will not generate a @java.beans.ConstructorProperties annotation when generating constructors. This is particularly useful for GWT and Android development.
lombok.log.fieldName: The name of the generated log field (default: log).
lombok.(featureName).flagUsage: Allows you to forcibly stop or discourage use of a lombok feature. Legal values for this key are warning or error. Some examples of values for (featureName) are: "experimental" (flags use of any of the experimental features), "builder", "sneakyThrows", or "extensionMethod".

Configuration files are hierarchical: Any configuration setting applies to all source files in that directory, and all source files in subdirectories, but configuration settings closer to the source file take precedence. For example, if you have in /Users/me/projects/lombok.config the following:

lombok.log.fieldName = foobar

and in /Users/me/projects/MyProject/lombok.config you have:

lombok.log.fieldName = xyzzy

Then the various @Log annotations will use foobar instead of the default log as a field name to generate in all your projects, except for your project in /Users/me/projects/MyProject, where xyzzy is used instead.

To restore a configuration key set by a parent config file back to the default, the clear option can be used. For example, if a parent configuration file has configured all use of val to emit a warning, you can turn off the warnings for a subdirectory by including in it a lombok.config file with:

clear lombok.val.flagUsage

Some configuration keys take lists. For lists, use += to add an entry. You can remove a single item from the list (useful to undo a parent configuration file's setting) with -=. For example:

lombok.accessors.prefix += m_

Comments can be included in lombok.config files; any line that starts with # is considered a comment.

Global config keys

To stop lombok from looking at parent directories for more configuration files, the special key:

config.stopBubbling = true

can be included. We suggest you put this in the root of your workspace directory.

Lombok normally adds @javax.annotation.Generated annotations to all generated nodes where possible. You can stop this with:

lombok.addGeneratedAnnotation = false

Lombok can add the @SuppressFBWarnings annotation which is useful if you want to run FindBugs on your class files. To enable this feature, make sure findbugs is on the classpath when you compile, and add the following config key:

lombok.extern.findbugs.addSuppressFBWarnings = true

Config keys that can even affect source files with 0 lombok annotations

lombok.fieldDefaults.defaultPrivate = true
lombok.fieldDefaults.defaultFinal = true

Turning either of these options on means lombok will make every field in every source file final and/or private unless it has an explicit access modifier or annotation to suppress this. See the @FieldDefaults documentation for more.