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can someone please provide me a working example with the lombok @SuperBuilder experimental annotation?

I can't get it running and there is no code example as documentation available.

Currently my code looks like this:

Superclass:

@JsonTypeInfo(use = JsonTypeInfo.Id.NAME, include = JsonTypeInfo.As.EXISTING_PROPERTY, property = "type")
@JsonSubTypes(
 @JsonSubTypes.Type(value = SubA.class),
 @JsonSubTypes.Type(value = AnotherSub.class)
)
@Getter
@Accessors(fluent = true, chain = true)
@SuperBuilder
public abstract class AbstractA 

 @JsonProperty
 protected final String superProperty;

And the subclass:

@Getter
@EqualsAndHashCode(callSuper = true)
@Accessors(fluent = true, chain = true)
@SuperBuilder
@JsonDeserialize(builder = SubA.SubABuilder.class) // class not found?
@JsonTypeName("SubA")
public class SubA extends AbstractA 

 @JsonProperty
 private final String fieldA;

Thanks

A working solution in Eclipse, note that the Lombok IntelliJ integration is not supporting all features, therefore the code compiles fine in Eclipse and with javac but IntelliJ thinks it's broken but executes the code without an issue.

public static ObjectMapper createObjectMapper() 

 final ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
 mapper.setAnnotationIntrospector(new JacksonAnnotationIntrospector() 

 @Override
 public JsonPOJOBuilder.Value findPOJOBuilderConfig(final AnnotatedClass ac) 
 if (ac.hasAnnotation(JsonPOJOBuilder.class)) 
 return super.findPOJOBuilderConfig(ac);
 
 return new JsonPOJOBuilder.Value("build", "");
 
 );

 return mapper;


public static void main(final String args) throws Exception 
 final ObjectMapper objectMapper = createObjectMapper();

 final String serializedForm = objectMapper.writeValueAsString(SubA.builder().build());
 System.out.println(serializedForm);
 final SubA anA = objectMapper.readValue(serializedForm, SubA.class);
 System.out.println(anA);



@Getter
@EqualsAndHashCode(callSuper = true)
@Accessors(fluent = true, chain = true)
@SuperBuilder
@JsonDeserialize(builder = SubA.SubABuilderImpl.class)
@JsonTypeName("SubA")
public static class SubA extends AbstractA 

 @JsonProperty
 private final String fieldA;



@JsonTypeInfo(use = JsonTypeInfo.Id.NAME, property = "type")
@JsonSubTypes(
 @JsonSubTypes.Type(value = SubA.class)
)
@Getter
@Accessors(fluent = true, chain = true)
@SuperBuilder
public static abstract class AbstractA 

 @JsonProperty
 protected final String superProperty;

Updated 2018-11-10: Lombok 1.18.4 released

For Lombok's @Builder and @SuperBuilder to work with Jackson, you have to add the builder class header manually and place a @JsonPOJOBuilder(withPrefix="") on it. Lombok will then generate only the remainder of the builder class. This is necessary because Jackson's default is that the builder's setter methods have "with" as prefix, but Lombok's builders don't have any prefix (and Lombok is not and will probably never be configurable in this regard).

When @SuperBuilder was introduced in Lombok 1.18.2, it was not customizable (i.e., you could not manually add the builder class header). As a result, using @SuperBuilder with Jackson was not easily possible.

This changed with Lombok 1.18.4 (see this pull request): @SuperBuilder is now (at least partially) customizable, and this allows us to add the annotation. Beware that the code generated by @SuperBuilder is quite complex and heavily loaded with generics. To avoid accidentally messing up the code, you should have a look at the delombok output and copy/paste the class header from there. Here, you need add the builder implementation class header and put the annotation on it:

@JsonPOJOBuilder(withPrefix="")
static final class SubABuilderImpl extends SubABuilder<SubA, SubABuilderImpl> 

Note that you have to broaden the visibility of SubABuilderImpl to at least package-private.

The @JsonDeserialize annotation must also refer to the builder implementation class, not the abstract builder:

@JsonDeserialize(builder = SubA.SubABuilderImpl.class)