diff --git a/java/sdk_library.go b/java/sdk_library.go
index 3931456e4..c5f7a1ce0 100644
--- a/java/sdk_library.go
+++ b/java/sdk_library.go
@@ -661,6 +661,10 @@ type sdkLibraryProperties struct {
 	// depend on.
 	Aconfig_declarations []string
 
+	// Determines if the module generates the stubs from the api signature files
+	// instead of the source Java files. Defaults to true.
+	Build_from_text_stub *bool
+
 	// TODO: determines whether to create HTML doc or not
 	// Html_doc *bool
 }