[FIXED] Mapstruct is not updating its getters and setters in the generated source files

Issue

I have an entity with a property I used to write like this private Long ICU;

I'm using mapstruct:

Here is my mapper for said entity:

@Mapper(componentModel = "spring")
public interface ProtectionQueryMapper extends EntityMapper<ProtectionQueryDto, Protection> {

    ProtectionQueryDto toDto(Protection protection);

    Protection toEntity(ProtectionQueryDto protectionQueryDto);

    List<Protection> toEntity(List<ProtectionQueryDto> protectionQueryDtos);

    List<ProtectionQueryDto> toDto(List<Protection> protections);

}

public interface EntityMapper<D, E> {

    E toEntity(D dto);

    D toDto(E entity);

    List<E> toEntity(List<D> dtoList);

    List<D> toDto(List<E> entityList);
}

The problem I have is that I want to change the property from ICU go icu, which I did and it resulted in this error:

nested exception is java.lang.NoSuchMethodError:

Protection.getICU()Ljava/lang/Long;

It would seem that mapstruct generated its getters and setters based on: private Long ICU; generating method like setICU and getICU. But now that I have changed the property from ICU to icu mapstruct is not updating its method to setIcu and getIcu.

I cannot change the mapstruct generated file manually.

Also here is my pom.xml (at least the part regarding mapstruct)

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.mapstruct</groupId>
  <artifactId>mapstruct</artifactId>  
  <version>1.3.0.Final</version>
</dependency>

              <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <configuration>
                    <source>1.8</source>
                    <target>1.8</target>
                    <annotationProcessorPaths>
                        <path>
                            <groupId>org.mapstruct</groupId>
                            <artifactId>mapstruct-processor</artifactId>
                            <version>1.3.0.Final</version>
                        </path>
                    </annotationProcessorPaths>
                    <compilerArgs>
                        <compilerArg>
                            <arg>-Amapstruct.defaultComponentModel=spring</arg>
                        </compilerArg>
                    </compilerArgs>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>

Any idea how to have mapstruct update its generated source file?

Solution

For some reason the recompile of the project didn't run the annotation processor. MapStruct is invoked by the Java compiler and the maven-compiler-plugin is responsible for cleaning up the folder with the generated classes.

Doing mvn clean compile will always work. However, if doing a change and then doing mvn compile doesn't, I would try with the latest version of the maven-compiler-plugin and if that still doesn't work create a bug report for the plugin.

Answered By - Filip
Answer Checked By - Mary Flores (JavaFixing Volunteer)