Gradle deprecated annotation processor warnings for lombok

Question

After upgrading to gradle 4.7, my previously warning-free build now emits this warning:

The following annotation processors were detected on the compile c

Answer 1

Change the lombok dependency type from compile to annotationProcessor, so your dependencies section in your build.gradle file should look like:

dependencies {
    compileOnly('org.projectlombok:lombok:1.16.20')
    annotationProcessor 'org.projectlombok:lombok:1.16.20'
    // compile 'org.projectlombok:lombok:1.16.20' <-- this no longer works!
    // other dependencies...
}