Lombok integration stops working if lombok is included as gradle's compileOnly

If I use a (new in Gradle 2.12) compileOnly dependency to include Lombok in my project, the Gradle build succeeds but the IntelliJ one does not, failing on all Lombok generated code.

dependencies {
  compile group: 'org.projectlombok', name: 'lombok', version: '1.16.8'
}

works, but

dependencies {
  compileOnly group: 'org.projectlombok', name: 'lombok', version: '1.16.8'
  testCompileOnly group: 'org.projectlombok', name: 'lombok', version: '1.16.8'
}

does not

[bensullivan]

I am seeing this too on Ubuntu 16.04:

IntelliJ IDEA 2016.2.4 Build #IC-162.2032.8, built on September 9, 2016 JRE: 1.8.0_112-release-b343 amd64 JVM: OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM by JetBrains s.r.o

[victorsmirnov]

I had faced the issue which looks like this one because I forgot to enable annotation processing in IntelliJ IDEA. It is described for example here in SO - Lombok annotations do not compile under Intellij idea. So I’m putting this note in a hope it might help other people who are absent-minded like me and find this while googling for the issue.

When I build the project in IntelliJ IDEA 2017.3 public preview without annotation processing enabled it looks like getters are setters are not created by @Data annotation.

I kept Lombok dependency as compileOnly, enabled annotations and it compiled like I expected with getters and setters.