Use of Gradle annotationProcessor dependency scope in Maven?

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Recently I was messing around with VSCode and configuring it to work with Java and Spring framework and I found this official guide for setup.

The curious thing that I'd like to share and ask about is in "Edit the project" section which contains a video on how to add dependencies. And it shows us that you can add maven dependency with annotationProcessor scope!

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From official Maven doc we know Maven defines 6 scopes: compile, runtime, provided, system, test, and import. And what I found more is that anotationProcessor is a dependency configuration that could be applied in Gradle.

So I tried to do the same in my IntelliJ IDEA project:

<dependency>
   <groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
   <artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
   <version>${projectlombok.version}</version>
   <scope>annotationProcessor</scope>
</dependency>

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and it worked! - it compiles!

So my question, I suppose, does anybody have any explanation for that?

Thanks!

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1 Answers

The scope annotationsProcessor is not a valid Maven scope.

If this works and compiles, Maven probably doesn't check thoroughly enough for scopes and maybe treads this as no scope at all (i.e. compile scope).

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