Variables with similar names - "Cannot find Symbol" for getter method

[mrieman]

I believe I have encountered a bug where Lombok build fails when 2 variables with very similar names. In this example, the only difference is a single character capitalization.

`import lombok.AllArgsConstructor;
import lombok.Builder;
import lombok.EqualsAndHashCode;
import lombok.Getter;
import lombok.NoArgsConstructor;
import lombok.Setter;
import lombok.ToString;

@EqualsAndHashCode @tostring @Setter @builder
@NoArgsConstructor @AllArgsConstructor
public class History implements java.io.Serializable {

//UpperCase "I" in this variable name`
@getter
private Integer histDeIdPtr;

//LowerCase "i" in this variable name`
@getter
private Integer histDeidPtr;

}`

Building via Maven, this causes
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-compiler-plugin:3.8.1:compile (default-compile) on project lombok-pojos: Compilation failure: Compilation failure: [ERROR] /C:/git/lombok-pojos/src/main/java/org/test/lombok/pojos/History.java:[27,1] cannot find symbol [ERROR] symbol: method getHistDeIdPtr()

NOTES on my setup:

• I cannot change the method names since the getter/setter methods are referenced by "closed" jars that are out of my control.
• Eclipse compiles this fine with no errors
• All other POJO classes build fine
• These POJO are generated.
• The Lombok annotations are added during the POJO generation via a template.

One workaround is to write my own getter/setter. But doing so would complicate the POJO generation templates, or require after-processing; both of which I would like to avoid.

If this is not a bug, is another workaround available?

[Rawi01]

I can confirm that lombok only generates one getter if there are two fields sharing the same name with different upper and lower case characters. It's quite funny that @EqualsAndHashCode and @ToString still try to use these methods. Seems to be a bug.

[Lekanich]

I think the root cause is here. It's because lombok checks getter names without case sensitivity.
https://github.com/rzwitserloot/lombok/blob/8943b49dfed95228e324422435a77597a95943c0/src/core/lombok/javac/handlers/HandleGetter.java#L203
I'm curious why...

And also it shouldn't work for the eclipse compiler because it also has the same check...

It was introduced here:
89d60fc
@rzwitserloot Is it some kind of feature?

[Rawi01]

Original issue: #148, https://groups.google.com/g/javaposse/c/4AzRsqJdzKM

It seems like the reason for this behaviour is to handle cases where someone wants to add a method like getURL by hand and not generate a lomobk method. As that could also solved using @Getter(AccessLevel.NONE) I think that lombok should switch back to case sensitv method name comparision.

Disclaimer: I'm not a project owner.

[aloktech]

Hi,
@DaTa
@builder
public class History implements Serializable {
private Integer histDeldPtr;
private Integer histDeidPtr;
}
The above piece of code generates a proper class file, without any issue in JDK 8(IntelliJ).

[rzwitserloot]

Duplicate of #2130: We won't fix this, for reasons, see that issue.