Annotation processor in Gradle outputs source files to build/classes making javadoc fail. How to fix it?

Question

I have an annotation processor that is automatically picked up by the Java compiler at build time (using SPI). During a gradle build, the generated java sources of this anno

Answer 1

I am not quite sure weather it is a bug or not. But as a workaround just filter the sources of javadoc.

Depending on how your build script looks like, it should look something like thistask

myJavadocs(type: Javadoc) {
  classpath = sourceSets.main.output.filter { it -> !it.name.endsWith('.java') }
}