"java: cannot find symbol" in IntelliJ but gradle builds

Question

I'm building a java project with IntelliJ IDEA 2018.1.5 (Community Edition) with the following errors:

However, if I build with ./gradlew build --x test, it is OK. I've tried all methods here, but still no luck. Any suggestions?

Delete .idea directory and reimport the project from Gradle. If the issue persists, report a bug at youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues/IDEA with the idea.log and the sample project to reproduce. — CrazyCoder
– CrazyCoder, Commented Jun 21, 2018 at 21:41
If you have already integrated with Gradle then you may have to invalidate your caches. To do that I believe you got to File -> invalidate caches and restart. This will force IntelliJ to reindex the project allowing it to identify symbols. — vandench
– vandench, Commented Jun 21, 2018 at 22:12
@CrazyCoder I tried, but it didn't work. Will report as a bug. — sinoTrinity
– sinoTrinity, Commented Jun 22, 2018 at 0:32

sinoTrinity · Accepted Answer · 2018-06-22 16:02:35Z

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Turn on "Preference" | "Build, Execution, Deployment" | "Compiler" | "Annotation Processors" | "Enable annotation processing".

answered Jun 22, 2018 at 16:02

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BBacon · Accepted Answer · 2018-07-17 14:52:15Z

1 - Check if Anotation Processing is enable in both 'Settings' and 'Default Settings' windows.

2 - Check if Lombok Plugin is installed and updated.

3 - Remove ALL generated folders from your project (.idea, .gradle, gradle, build, out..)

4 - Rerun Gradle Build.

This worked for me today when the Idea build was working but the Gradle run kept giving me errors.