Creating an alias annotation around Lombok annotations

[medge]

(Didn't know what to search for, so apologies if this is a duplicate question)

Fair warning: I am fairly new to annotation construction. Using them is fine, making them is new to me

 

What I essentially want to do is wrap lombok annotations within a custom annotation that would act solely as an alias to said lombok annotations. This is basically the concept Spring Boot uses with annotations like @Controller which is an alias for @Component (among others) 

For example: 

@MyModel public class Model {}

Would be equivalent to:

@Data @NoArgsConstructor public class Model {}

Is this possible? As a note: I am using Java 8 currently and tried a "dummy attempt" of:

@Data @NoArgsConstructor public @interface MyModel {}

But that threw errors.

Thanks!

[Leon Blakey]

I'm pretty sure that requires resolution which is very complicated

However an alternative, but slightly more cryptic, option is to use the new config file. Then its a relatively simpler @org.myproject.MyCustomAnnotation=@ToString(callSuper=true), @NoArgsConstructor

Obviously the syntax could use some work but that's still a lot easier than trying to make resolution work

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[medge]

So to clarify: after a quick look through [http://projectlombok.org/features/configuration.html], I created a file called lombok.config in my project's root directory with the following content:

config.stopBubbling = true
@MyModel = @ToString(callSuper=true), @Data, @NoArgsConstructor

However, an attempt to run this fails.

The test model looks like:

@MyModel

public class Test {

private String t;

private String u;

}

But something like new Test().setU("s"); fails

Am I missing something?

[Reinier Zwitserloot]

Leon's post was a suggestion of how it _could_ work. It doesn't actually work yet, but Roel and I will discuss it.

[medge]

Cheers, thanks for the update :)

[AnyaCranmer]

I also have a proposal for a wrapper annotation around existing lombok annotations. Similar to @Data but including Constructor annotations and Builder.
Would you consider an creating an annotation that wraps these annotations?:

@AllArgsConstructor

@Builder @Data

@NoArgsConstructor

@Value

thanks!