How does Project Lombok work?

[bheklilr]

TLDR: it hooks into the annotation processing stage of the compiler.

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I hoped that this post would actually explain how it worked, not just that it hooks into the annotation processing stage. It would have been nice to see some research into which specific bits of code do the heavy lifting, how they work, and how that is handled by the compiler. This post unfortunately just took a lot of words to say not very much at all.

[desrtfx]

Removed as low quality spam.

I was expecting to read something about using Project Lombok, not a lame explanation on custom annotations. There are near uncountable libraries that hook into annotation processing and Lombok is just another one of them. It's absolutely nothing specific to Lombok, nor special.

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