For most applications, you’ll notice a lot of boilerplate code converting POJOs to other POJOs. For example, a common type of conversion happens between persistence-backed enti… See more

Let’s add the below dependency into our Maven pom.xml: The latest stable release of MapStruct and its processorare both available from the Maven Central Repository… See more

4.1. Creating a POJO
Let’s first create a simple Java POJO:
4.2. The Mapper Interface
Notice we did not create an implementation class for ou… See more

Next, let’s obtain an instance of a mapper in MapStruct by merely calling Mappers.getMapper(YourClass.class). Of course, that’s a very manual way of getting the instanc… See more

From our previous example, MapStruct was able to map our beans automatically because they have the same field names. So, what if a bean we are about to map has a different fi… See more