Experimental features are available in your normal lombok installation, but are not as robustly supported as lombok's main features.
In particular, experimental features:
- Are not tested as well as the core features.
- Do not get bugs fixed as quickly as core features.
- May have APIs that will change, possibly drastically if we find a different, better way to solve the same problem.
- May disappear entirely if the feature is too difficult to support or does bust enough boilerplate.
Features that receive positive community feedback and which seem to produce clean, flexible code will eventually become accepted
as a core feature and move out of the experimental package.
@Builder- ... and Bob's your uncle: No-hassle fancy-pants APIs for object creation!
@Accessors- A more fluent API for getters and setters.
@ExtensionMethod- Annoying API? Fix it yourself: Add new methods to existing types!
@FieldDefaults- New default field modifiers for the 21st century.
@Delegate- Don't lose your composition.
@Wither- Immutable 'setters' - methods that create a clone but with one changed field.
onMethod= / onConstructor= / onParam=- Sup dawg, we heard you like annotations, so we put annotations in your annotations so you can annotate while you're annotating.