Querydsl Annotation Processor issue after upgrade to Gradle 5

Question

I have a gradle script which generates querydsl classes from Mongo annotated entities. It was working so far, but after upgrade to Gradle 5 I have a problem with:

Answer 1

I see you have compile("com.querydsl:querydsl-apt:4.1.4") in your dependencies. According to the docs

Since implementation details matter for annotation processors, they must be declared separately on the annotation processor path. Gradle ignores annotation processors on the compile classpath.

So, put com.querydsl:querydsl-apt:4.1.4 in the annotationProcessor scope.

BTW, consider switching to api / implementation scopes over compile.