Intellij-idea cannot see generated sources directory

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I have a maven project in IntelliJ I have marked the generated sources directory as the source by doing Files>Project Structure and marking as source. I've also done it the other way by right clicking on the folder and marking as generated-sources.

I'm still getting errors saying the IntelliJ cannot find things in these folders Cannot resolve symbol 'name_of_folder' when I'm creating a SOAP implementation

Does anyone know how I can fix this issue? From what I can see I have done everything correctly to mark that folder and IntelliJ Should be able to read from there

Maybe this will be of some help to you. [SO Question](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5905896/intellij-inspection-gives-cannot-resolve-symbol-but-still-compiles-code) You may have to re-import the project. `View -> Tool Windows -> Maven Projects, then click on cycle arrows icon` — Sadiq Ali, Jul 17 '17 at 11:33
See https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/IDEADEV/Maven+Integration+FAQ#MavenIntegrationFAQ-GeneratedSources — CrazyCoder, Jul 17 '17 at 11:38
@CrazyCoder My folders are there that's not the issue. When I mark it as source intellij doesn't seem to know about it — Tom Withers, Jul 17 '17 at 11:43
Please share the [Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example](http://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve). — CrazyCoder, Jul 17 '17 at 11:43
@CrazyCoder my explanation is fine, there is nothing else I can say to make it clear.... — Tom Withers, Jul 17 '17 at 11:46
You can share a sample so that others can reproduce it and tell you how to fix it. — CrazyCoder, Jul 17 '17 at 12:03

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 14 '17 at 06:14

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uncheck "Create Separate module per source set" in Preferences > Build, Execution, Deployment > Gradle and then rebuild / gradle refresh

answered Nov 14 '17 at 06:14

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 17 '17 at 13:37

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Fixed this error....

IntelliJ was marking all subdir of my generated-sources/cxf folder as source roots... So a simple highlight of all folders and un-mark as sources fixes the issue.

answered Jul 17 '17 at 13:37

Tom Withers

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 17 '23 at 08:26

I had a similar situation where I had to generate a Java class from the script through the pom.xml file. Even after I could see that the Java class was generated successfully after compiling the package, I mentioned I was not able to import that generated Java class and use it any other class.

Since this took much of my time to resolve the issue and I could not find any proper answers, I'm posting the steps I performed so that it could be a help to anyone in the future with similar issues.

First mark the generated source directory as the source by going to File ->Project Structure -> modules. Click on the Source tab and add your generated folder as source.
Right click on the folder under generated source folder and select mark directory as -> Generated sources root
Use this plugin so that generated class can be imported to any other class.

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
  <artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.0.0</version>
  <executions>
    <execution>
      <id>add-java-source</id>
      <phase>generate-sources</phase>
      <goals>
        <goal>add-source</goal>
      </goals>
      <configuration>
        <sources>
          <source>${project.build.directory}/generated-sources/{folderUnderGeneratedSrcFolder} </source>
        </sources>
      </configuration>
    </execution>
  </executions>
</plugin>

Hope this helps!!!!!

Intellij-idea cannot see generated sources directory

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