Tip: How to Annotate Class with Lombok

Learn how to generate toString(), equals(), hashCode(), getters, setters and no-args constructor via Lombok.

by Octavia Anghel

Jul 2, 2019

The first approach consists of annotating the class as below:

@ToString
@EqualsAndHashCode
@Getter
@Setter
@RequiredArgsConstructor
public class Foo {
   ...
}

A shortcut for @ToString, @EqualsAndHashCode, @Getter on all fields, @Setter on all non-final fields, and @RequiredArgsConstructor is @Data as follows:

@Data
public class Foo {
   ...
}

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Octavia Andreea Anghel is a senior PHP developer currently working as a primary trainer for programming teams that participate at national and international software-development contests. She consults on developing educational projects at a national level. She is a coauthor of the book "XML Technologies--XML in Java" (Albastra, ISBN 978-973-650-210-1), for which she wrote the XML portions. In addition to PHP and XML, she's interested in software architecture, web services, UML, and high-performance unit tests.