NoClassDefFoundError in IntelliJ because AutoService has class retention

[netdpb]

Maven projects using AutoValue have to explicitly depend on AutoService as well in order to avoid errors when using IDEs like IntelliJ.

For example see https://github.com/googleapis/java-shared-config/blob/393ba5669675afb44740fdc45c8110feccf0b3b6/pom.xml#L773-L786.

Can we change AutoService's retention back to source? Alternatively, can we change AutoValue's dependency on AutoService to have the normal compile scope instead of provided?

[cpovirk]

I am always happy to see annotation deps promoted from provided to compile :)

Our dependency on auto-service...

auto/value/processor/pom.xml

Line 53 in 0b4fd6a

<scope>provided</scope>

...may well just predate our current advice to use annotationProcessorPaths plus a dep on auto-service-annotations. (Maybe auto-service-annotations didn't even exist as a separate package back then?)

[imtdeepak]

We also faced the same issue and had to set the annotation processor in Intellij to obtain processors from the project classpath whenever we want to run or debug.