The following code snippet show you how to use Project Lombok‘s @Getter and @Setter annotations to generate getters and setters method in your POJO (plain old java objects) classes. Using these annotations remove the need to manually implements the mutator and accessor methods. Although most IDE allows you the generate these methods, using Lombok makes your classes look cleaner, especially when you have a long list of fields.

Here is a simple User class with a handful fields. We will use the @Getter and @Setter annotations on the class level. This will generate the getters and setters method for any non-static fields in the class.

package org.kodejava.example.lombok.domain;

import lombok.Getter;
import lombok.Setter;

import java.time.LocalDate;

@Getter
@Setter
public class User {
    private Long id;
    private String username;
    private String password;
    private LocalDate lastLogin;
    private boolean active;
}

Each fields in the class will have its corresponding getter and setter. For example the username field will have the getUsername() and setUsername() method. If the field type is boolean such as active it will generate the method setActive() and isActive() method.

Because the accessor and mutator already handled by Lombok, we can use the User class as if we manually implements the getters and setters method.

package org.kodejava.example.lombok;

import org.kodejava.example.lombok.domain.User;

import java.time.LocalDate;

public class UserDemo {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        User user = new User();
        user.setId(1L);
        user.setUsername("foo");
        user.setPassword("secret");
        user.setLastLogin(LocalDate.now());
        user.setActive(true);

        System.out.println(user.getId());
        System.out.println(user.getUsername());
        System.out.println(user.getPassword());
        System.out.println(user.getLastLogin());
        System.out.println(user.isActive());
    }
}

If for some reasons you want to disable the getter and setter on specific field, or you want the change the access level, you can use the AccessLevel enums value for the @Getter and @Setter annotations. For example in the code snippet below the username will have no getter and setter while the lastLogin getter and setter will have protected access modifier. The AccessLevel enums includes PUBLIC, MODULE, PROTECTED, PACKAGE, PRIVATE and NONE.

package org.kodejava.example.lombok.domain;

import lombok.AccessLevel;
import lombok.Getter;
import lombok.Setter;

import java.time.LocalDate;

@Getter
@Setter
public class User {
    private Long id;
    @Getter(AccessLevel.NONE)
    @Setter(AccessLevel.NONE)
    private String username;
    private String password;
    @Getter(AccessLevel.PROTECTED)
    @Setter(AccessLevel.PROTECTED)
    private LocalDate lastLogin;
    private boolean active;
}

Maven Dependencies

<!--https://search.maven.org/remotecontent?filepath=org/projectlombok/lombok/1.18.4/lombok-1.18.4.jar-->
<dependency>
  <groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
  <artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
  <version>1.18.4</version>
</dependency>