Constructor XXX in enum XXX cannot be applied to given types in mapstruct

I was having that weird error when I was working with mapstruct, turn out that the default java version for mapstruct is java 6. Since our project was in java 11 I was getting the error “Constructor XXX in enum XXX cannot be applied to given types”.

My starting config was :

        <dependencies>
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>org.mapstruct</groupId>
                 <artifactId>mapstruct</artifactId>
                 <version>${org.mapstruct.version}</version>
             </dependency>
         </dependencies>
         <build>
             <plugins>
                 <plugin>
                     <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                     <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                     <version>3.8.0</version>
                     <configuration>
                         <release>${java.version}</release>
                         <source>1.6</source> <!-- or higher, depending on your project -->
                         <target>1.6</target> <!-- or higher, depending on your project -->
                         <annotationProcessorPaths>
                             <path>
                                 <groupId>org.mapstruct</groupId>
                                 <artifactId>mapstruct-processor</artifactId>
                                 <version>${org.mapstruct.version}</version>
                             </path>
                         </annotationProcessorPaths>
                     </configuration>
                 </plugin>
             </plugins>
         </build>

After some research, turn out there a mapstruct version for java 8 and more. You can use the following maven to configure mapstruct for java 8 or higher :

        <dependencies>
             <dependency>
                 <groupId>org.mapstruct</groupId>
                 <!-- use mapstruct-jdk8 for Java 8 or higher --> 
                 <artifactId>mapstruct-jdk8</artifactId> 
                 <version>${org.mapstruct.version}</version>
             </dependency>
         </dependencies>
        <build>
             <plugins>
                 <plugin>
                     <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                     <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                     <version>3.8.0</version>
                     <configuration>
                         <release>${java.version}</release>
                          <!-- or higher, depending on your project -->
                         <source>1.11</source> 
                         <target>1.11</target> 
                         <annotationProcessorPaths>
                             <path>
                              <groupId>org.mapstruct</groupId>
                              <artifactId>mapstruct-processor</artifactId>
                              <version>${org.mapstruct.version}</version>
                             </path>
                         </annotationProcessorPaths>
                     </configuration>
                 </plugin>
             </plugins>
         </build>

Let me know if you had that problem and if this helped you.