CODEWITHSUNDEEP
spring-bootlombok
TAB
TAB

Reputation: 2134

What are disadvantages of using Lombok in my Spring Boot RestApi?

I am using Lombok in my Spring Boot Rest Api. I searched a lot but could not found what I want to know about Lombok. My rest api is an enterprise level application which would be extend with more modules in future.

Should I use lombok? What are the major disadvantages of Lombok using in enterprise application?

My IDE is STS.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2721

Answers (2)

Yevhen Surovskyi
Yevhen Surovskyi

Reputation: 961

You have to know what Lombok really does under the hood.

For example, Lombok adds @java.beans.ConstructorProperties before constructors. This may be important if you use Jackson serialization.

See https://projectlombok.org/features/constructor

Upvotes: 1

Jan Rieke
Jan Rieke

Reputation: 8052

There are no special advantages or disadvantages of using Lombok in an enterprise application. Lombok itself and all its annotations are removed during compilation, so there will be no additional libraries at runtime.

Furthermore, if at any point later you'd decide against Lombok, you could remove it again by running delombok, which will give you the code that Lombok generates. So there is no real risk there (besides that it will of course take some time to delombok everything).

For a general (of course opinion-based) discussion on Lombok's (dis)advantages, see this answer.

Upvotes: 1

Related Questions