Required arguments with a Lombok @Builder

Question

If I add @Builder to a class. The builder method is created.

Person.builder().name(\"john\").surname(\"Smith\").build();

I have a requirem

Answer 1

The simpliest solution is to add a @lombok.NonNull to all mandatory values. The Builder will fail to build the object when mandatory fields are not set.

Here's a JUnit test to demonstrate the behavior of all combinations of final and @NonNull:

import static org.junit.Assert.fail;

import org.junit.Test;

import lombok.Builder;
import lombok.ToString;

public class BuilderTests {
    @Test
    public void allGiven() {
        System.err.println(Foo.builder()
            .nonFinalNull("has_value")
            .nonFinalNonNull("has_value")
            .finalNull("has_value")
            .finalNonNull("has_value")
            .build());
    }

    @Test
    public void noneGiven() {
        try {
            System.err.println(Foo.builder()
                .build()
                .toString());
            fail();
        } catch (NullPointerException e) {
            // expected
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void nonFinalNullOmitted() {
        System.err.println(Foo.builder()
            .nonFinalNonNull("has_value")
            .finalNull("has_value")
            .finalNonNull("has_value")
            .build());
    }

    @Test
    public void nonFinalNonNullOmitted() {
        try {
            System.err.println(Foo.builder()
                .nonFinalNull("has_value")
                .finalNull("has_value")
                .finalNonNull("has_value")
                .build());
            fail();
        } catch (NullPointerException e) {
            // expected
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void finalNullOmitted() {
        System.err.println(Foo.builder()
            .nonFinalNull("has_value")
            .nonFinalNonNull("has_value")
            .finalNonNull("has_value")
            .build());
    }

    @Test
    public void finalNonNullOmitted() {
        try {
            System.err.println(Foo.builder()
                .nonFinalNull("has_value")
                .nonFinalNonNull("has_value")
                .finalNull("has_value")
                .build());
            fail();
        } catch (NullPointerException e) {
            // expected
        }
    }

    @Builder
    @ToString
    private static class Foo {
        private String nonFinalNull;

        @lombok.NonNull
        private String nonFinalNonNull;

        private final String finalNull;

        @lombok.NonNull
        private final String finalNonNull;
    }
}