Using AutoValue Annotations in Eclipse

Question

I'm porting an SDK from Android to plain Java and have run into an AutoParcel annotation that I don't understand.

Here's the original class and a snippet below:

@AutoParcel.Builder
public abstract static class Builder {
    public abstract Builder id(String id);
...
    public abstract SimpleFeature build();
}

public static Builder builder() {
    return new AutoParcel_SimpleFeature.Builder();
}

I am able to pretty much port everything to AutoValue without incident, except that last function, as I don't understand what it is or it's equivalent in AutoValue.

Can someone explain what this is, and what its equivalent is in AutoValue?

Answer 1

As JohnWowUs' comment suggests, this was largely an Eclipse issue.

The link he mentioned was only part of the solution, but I didn't need to drop more JARs into the project. With the help of an issue in the AutoValue repo and specifically configuring the maven-compiler-plugin, setting JDK1.7 as a target, with the following section added to the pom.xml:

<annotationProcessors>
    <annotationProcessor>com.google.auto.value.processor.AutoValueProcessor</annotationProcessor>
</annotationProcessors>