Annotation Processor in IntelliJ and Gradle

Question

tl;dr: I cannot configure IntelliJ to generate the java files in the same directory as gradle

I have a small project which uses the immutables annot

Answer 1

Hey there everyone I had the same issue and found a clean way of solving this issue. I am using two libraries that require annotation processing (Lombok and MapStruct).

Also my IntelliJ is 2019.1 (update yours in case it's older) and Gradle 5.2.1.

First let's configure IntelliJ:

1. Disable Annotaion Processing in Settings, since we're going to delegate everything to Gradle:

2. Delegeate IDE actions to Gradle:

Last step is to configure your dependencies correctly in Gradle.

3. Dependencies section in Gradle:

Now you can execute the Build and Run from both command line and IDE.

Cheers!