SpringBoot + Lombok + MapStruct not working together - spring-boot

Question

I'm trying to configure SpringBoot (v2.6.2) with Lombok and MapStruct, already configured the maven compiler plugin and the lombok-mapstruct-binding (annotationProcessorPaths) but the lombok classes aren't being created:
pom.xml
*<parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>2.6.2</version>
<relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent>
<groupId>io.knowledge</groupId>
<artifactId>knowledge</artifactId>
<version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
<name>knowledge</name>
<description>Demo project for Spring Boot</description>
<properties>
<java.version>11</java.version>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
<maven.compiler.target>11</maven.compiler.target>
<maven.compiler.source>11</maven.compiler.source>
<version.mapstruct>1.4.1.Final</version.mapstruct>
</properties>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-jpa</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.h2database</groupId>
<artifactId>h2</artifactId>
<scope>runtime</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
<artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
<optional>true</optional>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.mapstruct</groupId>
<artifactId>mapstruct</artifactId>
<version>${version.mapstruct}</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
<configuration>
<excludes>
<exclude>
<groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
<artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
</exclude>
</excludes>
</configuration>
</plugin>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.8.0</version>
<configuration>
<annotationProcessorPaths>
<path>
<groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
<artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
<version>${lombok.version}</version>
</path>
<path>
<groupId>org.mapstruct</groupId>
<artifactId>mapstruct-processor</artifactId>
<version>${version.mapstruct}</version>
</path>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
<artifactId>lombok-mapstruct-binding</artifactId>
<version>0.2.0</version>
</dependency>
</annotationProcessorPaths>
<compilerArgs>
<compilerArg>
-Amapstruct.defaultComponentModel=spring
</compilerArg>
</compilerArgs>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>
</build>
</project>*
Always getting an uninitialised variable error when trying to use DI:
variable xxxx might not have been initialized

Answer 1

yes, you can also take a look at the accepted answer here How to instruct Mapstruct to use lombok builder? it's also the official mapstruct documentation https://mapstruct.org/documentation/stable/reference/html/#_set_up
<build>
<plugins>
<plugin>
<groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
<artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
<version>3.8.1</version>
<configuration>
<source>1.8</source>
<target>1.8</target>
<annotationProcessorPaths>
<path>
<groupId>org.mapstruct</groupId>
<artifactId>mapstruct-processor</artifactId>
<version>${org.mapstruct.version}</version>
</path>
<path>
<groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
<artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
<version>${org.projectlombok.version}</version>
</path>
<!-- additional annotation processor required as of Lombok 1.18.16 -->
<path>
<groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
<artifactId>lombok-mapstruct-binding</artifactId>
<version>0.1.0</version>
</path>
</annotationProcessorPaths>
</configuration>
</plugin>
</plugins>

Answer 2

Just double checked everything, I was missing some intelliJ configurations.