Lombok @Setter may be used

Reports standard setter method that can be replaced by the lombok @Setter annotation.

Example:

  import java.util.Date;

  public class MyClass {
    /**
     * The process date.
     */
    private Date processDate;

    /**
     * Sets the date.
     *
     * @param The date
     */
    public void setProcessDate(Date param) {
      processDate = param;
    }
  }

After the quick-fix/cleanup is applied:

  import lombok.Setter;
  import java.util.Date;

  @Setter
  public class MyClass {
    /**
     * The process date.
     * -- SETTER --
     * Sets the date.
     *
     * @param The date
     */
    private Date processDate;
  }

It only reports when the lombok library is configured. To unlombok, see the lombok site.

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

LombokSetterMayBeUsed

Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | Java | Verbose or redundant code constructs

New in 2023.2

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection LombokSetterMayBeUsed

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2

Inspection Details
By default bundled with:	IntelliJ IDEA 2025.2, Qodana for JVM 2025.2,

Last modified: 18 September 2025