Not sure this problem is caused by Elasticsearch or Groovy Grape.
I have a groovy script that uses Grape to handle dependencies:
@Grapes([
@Grab(group = 'org.elasticsearch', module = 'elasticsearch', version = '5.0.0'),
@Grab(group = 'org.elasticsearch.client', module = 'transport', version = '5.0.0'),
@Grab(group = 'org.apache.logging.log4j', module = 'log4j-api', version = '2.7'),
@Grab(group = 'org.apache.logging.log4j', module = 'log4j-core', version = '2.7')
])
Netty transitive dependencies coming from 'org.elasticsearch.client.transport' are not correctly included and when I try to connect I get the following ClassNotFoundException
Caught: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: io/netty/channel/RecvByteBufAllocator
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: io/netty/channel/RecvByteBufAllocator
at org.elasticsearch.transport.Netty4Plugin.getSettings(Netty4Plugin.java:39)
at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginsService.lambda$getPluginSettings$0(PluginsService.java:85)
at org.elasticsearch.plugins.PluginsService.getPluginSettings(PluginsService.java:85)
at org.elasticsearch.client.transport.TransportClient.buildTemplate(TransportClient.java:115)
at org.elasticsearch.client.transport.TransportClient.<init>(TransportClient.java:228)
at org.elasticsearch.transport.client.PreBuiltTransportClient.<init>(PreBuiltTransportClient.java:69)
at org.elasticsearch.transport.client.PreBuiltTransportClient.<init>(PreBuiltTransportClient.java:65)
Running 'grape resolve org.elasticsearch.client transport 5.0.0' returns
/Users/user/.groovy/grapes/org.elasticsearch.client/transport/jars/transport-5.0.0.jar
/Users/user/.groovy/grapes/org.elasticsearch/elasticsearch/jars/elasticsearch-5.0.0.jar
/Users/user/.groovy/grapes/org.apache.lucene/lucene-core/jars/lucene-core-6.2.0.jar
/Users/user/.groovy/grapes/org.elasticsearch/securesm/jars/securesm-1.1.jar
/Users/user/.groovy/grapes/net.sf.jopt-simple/jopt-simple/jars/jopt-simple-5.0.2.jar
/Users/user/.groovy/grapes/com.carrotsearch/hppc/jars/hppc-0.7.1.jar
/Users/user/.groovy/grapes/joda-time/joda-time/jars/joda-time-2.9.4.jar
/Users/user/.groovy/grapes/org.joda/joda-convert/jars/joda-convert-1.2.jar
/Users/user/.groovy/grapes/org.yaml/snakeyaml/bundles/snakeyaml-1.15.jar
/Users/user/.groovy/grapes/com.fasterxml.jackson.core/jackson-core/bundles/jackson-core-2.8.1.jar
/Users/user/.groovy/grapes/com.tdunning/t-digest/jars/t-digest-3.0.jar
/Users/user/.groovy/grapes/org.hdrhistogram/HdrHistogram/bundles/HdrHistogram-2.1.6.jar
/Users/user/.groovy/grapes/net.java.dev.jna/jna/jars/jna-4.2.2.jar
/Users/user/.groovy/grapes/org.elasticsearch.plugin/transport-netty3-client/jars/transport-netty3-client-5.0.0.jar
/Users/user/.groovy/grapes/io.netty/netty/bundles/netty-3.10.6.Final.jar
/Users/user/.groovy/grapes/org.elasticsearch.plugin/transport-netty4-client/jars/transport-netty4-client-5.0.0.jar
/Users/user/.groovy/grapes/io.netty/netty-common/jars/netty-common-4.1.5.Final.jar
/Users/user/.groovy/grapes/org.elasticsearch.plugin/reindex-client/jars/reindex-client-5.0.0.jar
/Users/user/.groovy/grapes/org.elasticsearch.client/rest/jars/rest-5.0.0.jar
/Users/user/.groovy/grapes/org.apache.httpcomponents/httpcore/jars/httpcore-4.4.5.jar
/Users/user/.groovy/grapes/commons-codec/commons-codec/jars/commons-codec-1.10.jar
/Users/user/.groovy/grapes/commons-logging/commons-logging/jars/commons-logging-1.1.3.jar
/Users/user/.groovy/grapes/org.elasticsearch.plugin/lang-mustache-client/jars/lang-mustache-client-5.0.0.jar
/Users/user/.groovy/grapes/com.github.spullara.mustache.java/compiler/jars/compiler-0.9.3.jar
/Users/user/.groovy/grapes/org.elasticsearch.plugin/percolator-client/jars/percolator-client-5.0.0.jar
I have also tried to include the netty dependency but it then complains about other missing ones (like lucene).
The same script with elasticsearch 2.4.x works well and the dependency are correctly resolved. Any idea?