Lombok builder to check non null and not empty

Maxim Kirilov’s answer is incomplete. It doesn’t check for blank/empty Strings.

I’ve faced the same issue before, and I realized that in addition to using @NonNull and @Builder from Lombok, overload the constructor with a private access modifier, where you can perform the validations. Something like this:

private Person(final String firstName, final String lastName) {
    if(StringUtils.isBlank(firstName)) {
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("First name can't be blank/empty/null"); 
    }
    if(StringUtils.isBlank(lastName)) {
        throw new IllegalArgumentException("Last name can't be blank/empty/null"); 
    }
    this.firstName = firstName;
    this.lastName = lastName;
}

Also, throwing IllegalArgumentException makes more sense (instead of NPE) when String has blank, empty or null values.