[2.0] template vs java compilation order (Project Lombok generated getters not recognized)

[Josh]

Hi,

This is a strange problem... I've been using (and loving) project lombok for the last few days and its been working great.

Today I applied some of the javascriptRoute tips from another thread and recompiled, and now I get an error message saying that my lombok-generated getters can't be found. I can't really explain it, I see the getters in Eclipse and I have this in my Build.scala file (in the correct place):

"org.projectlombok" % "lombok" % "0.10.8"

but I get this error:

[error] /Users/jpollak/src/QuickTrans/target/scala-2.9.1/src_managed/main/views/html/key.template.scala:94: value getValue is not a member of models.Translation

I was wondering if it is an order of operations issue between compiling the scala file and Template.java, or if I might be doing something else wrong.

For now, I've manually created a getter to keep working, but I'd like to keep using lombok!

-Josh

[Ben McCann]

For some reason the views get compiled before the models.  I'm not sure how that works at all or whats going on.  I agree it's very strange.  Anyway, my solution was to create a Play sub-project that holds only my models.  That's been allowing me to use Lombok and has worked well.

See "Splitting your web application into several parts" on https://github.com/playframework/Play20/wiki/SBTSubProjects 

-Ben

[Josh]

Alright, I'll check it out. Its unfortunate to have to split the Models out, but at least it is doable.

[Matthias Kurz]

This has nothing to do with compile order within Play or sbt - it's a problem with the Scala compiler - see my comment for further explanation:

https://github.com/playframework/playframework/pull/4006#issuecomment-81049150