Spring boot application issues with using springdoc-openapi-javadoc - spring-boot

Question

I am using springdoc-openapi-ui (Version 1.6.12) in my spring boot application (Spring boot version 2.7.2) for API documentation. It works fine and I had no issue with it. However I wanted to add the feature to push javadoc comments to swagger-ui as well.
For that I did add the dependency springdoc-openapi-javadoc (Version 1.6.12) to my POM file. To support the dependency to push the javadoc comments, I did add the following maven plugin as well which is required by the documentations.
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<annotationProcessorPaths>
<path>
<groupId>com.github.therapi</groupId>
<artifactId>therapi-runtime-javadoc-scribe</artifactId>
<version>0.15.0</version>
</path>
</annotationProcessorPaths>
</configuration>
</plugin>
After adding the plugin and the dependency, I had so many issues within the application. As an example, I could not add new logs and build the application. I am adding logs using lombok and its annotation #Slf4j. The moment I add a new log, I get the following error.
java: cannot find symbol
symbol: variable log
location: class com.example.swaggerDemo.controllers.BookController
The root cause for this issue is not very clear for me. Did anyone faced the same issue? Is there a solution available or is there something wrong in my implementation which is leading to this error?
Your advices are kindly appreciated and thanks!

Answer 1

You need to add lombok and therapi-runtime-javadoc-scribe to the maven-compiler-plugin configuration
ie.
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<annotationProcessorPaths>
<path>
<groupId>com.github.therapi</groupId>
<artifactId>therapi-runtime-javadoc-scribe</artifactId>
<version>0.15.0</version>
</path>
<path>
<groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
<artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
<version>${lombok.version}</version>
</path>
</annotationProcessorPaths>
</configuration>
</plugin>