We want to annotate a getter on one of our classes with the @Valid annotation to allow cascading validation. AutoValue copies this annotation to the AutoValue class. This results in the following error message:

HV000131: A method return value must not be marked for cascaded validation more than once in a class hierarchy, but the following two methods are marked as such: public my.name.space.Parameters my.name.space.AutoValue_Class.getParameters(), public abstract my.name.space.Parameters my.name.space.Class.getParameters().

We are working around this by applying the annotation to the parameter in the factory method.

e.g.

@JsonCreator
public static Class create(@Valid Parameters parameters){ /* code */ }

It would be nicer if the @Valid were not copied to the autovalue class so we could annotate the getting directly.