How to work with Lombok on Quarkus

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[Languages] Java language is a simple language for app development. The only turn-off to newbies is that it has so many syntactical terms to cram all at once. This makes the newcomers confused and also wish for any way to shorten the code for them. Frameworks such as SpringBoot, Micronaut, Quarkus, and others have tried to come up with ingenious ways to do this. This includes the use of easy-to-use libraries. These libraries provide annotations that can be quickly and easily used to replace blocks of codes.

Lombok is an example of one of these libraries. 'Project Lombok' as it's known, is a java library that plugs into your editor or IDE and builds tools simplifying Java. It takes away the writing of getters, setters, or equals methods again. This is by use of one annotation. The class will have a fully-featured builder, Automated logging variables, and much more.

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At the end of this article, the following will have been learned:

How to set up Lombok in a Quarkus project
IntelliJ lombok setup
How to set up tests in Quarkus to test the Lombok project functionality
How to deal with Getters and Setters in Lombok
Access levels and constructors in Lombok
EqualsAndHashCode and ToString annotations in Lombok
Exclude and Data annotations
Accessors and NotNull
Builder, BuilderDefault, and Singular annotations in Lombok
Slf4j, Lombok configurations, and custom logs

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This is an in-depth article on how to use the Lombok library in Quarkus. It also integrates the use of tests to the code to prove the functionality of the library.

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Lombok source code

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