Best practice for @Value fields, Lombok, and Constructor Injection?

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You need @RequiredArgsConstructor and mark myDependency as final. In this case, Lombok will generate a constructor based on ‘required’ final filed as argument, for example:

@RequiredArgsConstructor
@Service
public class MyService {

    @Value("${my.config.value}")
    private String myField;

    private final MyComponent myComponent;

    //...
}

That is equal the following:

@Service
public class MyService {

    @Value("${my.config.value}")
    private String myField;

    private final MyComponent myComponent;

    public MyService(MyComponent myComponent) { // <= implicit injection
        this.myComponent = myComponent;
    } 

    //...
}

Since here is only one constructor, Spring inject MyComponent without the explicit use of the @Autowired annotation.

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