java - Required arguments with a Lombok @Builder

Question

If I add @Builder to a class. The builder method is created.

Person.builder().name("john").surname("Smith").build();

I have a requirement where a particular field is required. In this case, the name field is required but the surname is not. Ideally, I would like to declare it like so.

Person.builder("john").surname("Smith").build()

I can't work out how to do this. I have tried adding the @Builder to a constructor but it didn't work.

@Builder
public Person(String name) {
    this.name = name;
}

Answer 1

You can do it easily with Lombok annotation configuration

import lombok.Builder;
import lombok.ToString;

@Builder(builderMethodName = "hiddenBuilder")
@ToString
public class Person {

    private String name;
    private String surname;

    public static PersonBuilder builder(String name) {
        return hiddenBuilder().name(name);
    }
}

And then use it like that

Person p = Person.builder("Name").surname("Surname").build();
System.out.println(p);

Of course @ToString is optional here.