java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/hc/core5/http/ClassicHttpRequest on WebDriverManager 5.3.2

[Ya-s-h]

Got this error on WebDriverManager 5.3.2 java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/hc/core5/http/ClassicHttpRequest when Using Chrome 109 on windows 11

CODE
package main.java.test.java.seleniumE2E;

import io.github.bonigarcia.wdm.WebDriverManager;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.testng.annotations.AfterMethod;
import org.testng.annotations.BeforeMethod;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

public class ChromeTest {
static WebDriver driver;
@BeforeMethod
static void setupClass() {
WebDriverManager.chromedriver().setup();
driver = new ChromeDriver();
}
@AfterMethod
void teardown() {
driver.quit();
}
@test
void test() {
// Exercise
driver.get("https://bonigarcia.dev/selenium-webdriver-java/");
}
}

Error Message
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/hc/core5/http/ClassicHttpRequest

at main.java.test.java.seleniumE2E.ChromeTest.setupClass(ChromeTest.java:21)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:77)
at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:568)
at org.testng.internal.MethodInvocationHelper.invokeMethod(MethodInvocationHelper.java:134)
at org.testng.internal.MethodInvocationHelper.invokeMethodConsideringTimeout(MethodInvocationHelper.java:63)
at org.testng.internal.ConfigInvoker.invokeConfigurationMethod(ConfigInvoker.java:348)
at org.testng.internal.ConfigInvoker.invokeConfigurations(ConfigInvoker.java:302)
at org.testng.internal.TestInvoker.runConfigMethods(TestInvoker.java:695)
at org.testng.internal.TestInvoker.invokeMethod(TestInvoker.java:523)
at org.testng.internal.TestInvoker.invokeTestMethod(TestInvoker.java:173)
at org.testng.internal.MethodRunner.runInSequence(MethodRunner.java:46)
at org.testng.internal.TestInvoker$MethodInvocationAgent.invoke(TestInvoker.java:816)
at org.testng.internal.TestInvoker.invokeTestMethods(TestInvoker.java:146)
at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.invokeTestMethods(TestMethodWorker.java:146)
at org.testng.internal.TestMethodWorker.run(TestMethodWorker.java:128)
at java.base/java.util.ArrayList.forEach(ArrayList.java:1511)
at org.testng.TestRunner.privateRun(TestRunner.java:766)
at org.testng.TestRunner.run(TestRunner.java:587)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runTest(SuiteRunner.java:384)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner.runSequentially(SuiteRunner.java:378)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner.privateRun(SuiteRunner.java:337)
at org.testng.SuiteRunner.run(SuiteRunner.java:286)
at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.runSuite(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:53)
at org.testng.SuiteRunnerWorker.run(SuiteRunnerWorker.java:96)
at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesSequentially(TestNG.java:1187)
at org.testng.TestNG.runSuitesLocally(TestNG.java:1109)
at org.testng.TestNG.runSuites(TestNG.java:1039)
at org.testng.TestNG.run(TestNG.java:1007)
at com.intellij.rt.testng.IDEARemoteTestNG.run(IDEARemoteTestNG.java:66)
at com.intellij.rt.testng.RemoteTestNGStarter.main(RemoteTestNGStarter.java:109)

Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.hc.core5.http.ClassicHttpRequest
at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:641)
at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoaders.java:188)
at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:520)
... 32 more

Test ignored.

===============================================
Default Suite
Total tests run: 1, Passes: 0, Failures: 0, Skips: 1
Configuration Failures: 1, Skips: 1

Process finished with exit code 0

[MariusDK]

A suggestion is to add dependency on application pom

org.apache.httpcomponents.client5
httpclient5
5.2.1

This way I've resolved the issue

[bonigarcia]

Thanks for you comment @MariusDK. Indeed, this a dependency problem. Please check the required version for org.apache.httpcomponents.client5 is your project, @Ya-s-h.

[Mowee]

@bonigarcia Will this dependency be added by a future release?

[bonigarcia]

@Mowee httpclient5 is transitive dependency in WedDriverManager. The version of that dependency is fixed in the project docker-java, but they are not very responsive related to bumping dependencies (see e.g. #916 or here).

[Mowee]

@bonigarcia Thank you for the explanation. I just thought this could be added as a dependency so that not everyone needs to add this dependency manually. But I get your point. Would be nice if they just fix it upstream. Thx for your great work.