Error Prone Plugin

In the light-4j 1.6.0 release, we have upgraded the Google error-prone plugin in the pom.xml to the latest version. This cause the IntelliJ IDEA to throw an error as the following.

Error:java: java.lang.RuntimeException: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: com.sun.tools.javac.util.JavacMessages.add(Lcom/sun/tools/javac/util/JavacMessages$ResourceBundleHelper;)V
Error:java: Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: com.sun.tools.javac.util.JavacMessages.add(Lcom/sun/tools/javac/util/JavacMessages$ResourceBundleHelper;)V
Error:java: 	at com.google.errorprone.BaseErrorProneJavaCompiler.setupMessageBundle(BaseErrorProneJavaCompiler.java:202)
Error:java: 	at com.google.errorprone.ErrorProneJavacPlugin.init(ErrorProneJavacPlugin.java:40)

To make the IDEA work, we need to install a plugin.

• Go to the Help/Find Action…
• Search Plugins
• Search error in the market place to find Error-prone Compiler Integration
• Install the plugin and restart the IDE
• Go to File | Settings | Compiler | Java Compiler and select Javac with error-prone in Use compiler box.

With the above changes, you can run and debug the application in the IDE.

For more information about this plugin, please visit https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7349-error-prone-compiler-integration