Elasticsearch method not being found in spring boot

[momo94]

Hello All. I am really glad I found this discussion forum.

I have been stuck with this issue for a while now and any assistance is appreciated. I am running Spring Boot version 2.2.0 with the ElasticSearch high-level REST Client version 6.4.3 and using version 3.2.0 for the Spring-Data-Elasticsearch version. I am getting the error below. I have tried the following attempts to fix but none do.

1. Change Spring Boot Version multiple times
2. Change ES version multiple times
3. I have cleared my .m2 folder and redownloaded the maven dependencies multiple times.

Description:

An attempt was made to call a method that does not exist. The attempt was made from the following location:

    org.springframework.data.elasticsearch.core.ElasticsearchRestTemplate.putMapping(ElasticsearchRestTemplate.java:292)

The following method did not exist:

    org.elasticsearch.client.IndicesClient.putMapping(Lorg/elasticsearch/action/admin/indices/mapping/put/PutMappingRequest;Lorg/elasticsearch/client/RequestOptions;)Lorg/elasticsearch/action/support/master/AcknowledgedResponse;

The method's class, org.elasticsearch.client.IndicesClient, is available from the following locations:

    jar:file:/Users/user/.m2/repository/org/elasticsearch/client/elasticsearch-rest-high-level-client/6.4.3/elasticsearch-rest-high-level-client-6.4.3.jar!/org/elasticsearch/client/IndicesClient.class

It was loaded from the following location:

    file:/Users/user/.m2/repository/org/elasticsearch/client/elasticsearch-rest-high-level-client/6.4.3/elasticsearch-rest-high-level-client-6.4.3.jar


Action:

Correct the classpath of your application so that it contains a single, compatible version of org.elasticsearch.client.IndicesClient

My POM is below

 <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-data-elasticsearch</artifactId>
    </dependency>

    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-data-elasticsearch</artifactId>
        <version>3.2.0</version>
    </dependency>

Any help is appreciated. I am sure it has to deal with compatibility issues but not sure which. Thanks all!

[dadoonet (David Pilato)]

Welcome!

When using springboot with elasticsearch, you need to be explicit with some transitive dependencies as SpringBoot declares a version 6.4...

Basically you can put this in your pom.xml:

<properties>
  <elasticsearch.version>7.7.0<elasticsearch.version>
</properties>

See documentation here: https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/current/reference/html/howto.html#howto-customize-dependency-versions

[momo94]

I was able to get it work. Thanks for your reply @dadoonet