Solved :Java High Level RestClient 6.1.3 NoClassDefFoundError

[Christian_Foerster]

Hi,
I'm trying to create a very simple Rest Client, as described in the docs.
I'm using maven with this dependency:

<dependency>
        <groupId>org.elasticsearch.client</groupId>
        <artifactId>elasticsearch-rest-high-level-client</artifactId>
        <version>6.1.3</version>
   </dependency>

RestClientBuilder builder = RestClient.builder(
            new HttpHost("localhost", 9200, "http"));
RestHighLevelClient client = new RestHighLevelClient(builder);

But I get this error:

    Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/lucene/util/Version
	    at org.elasticsearch.Version.<clinit>(Version.java:44)
       ...

The org.apache.lucene.util.Version seems to be no longer part of the lucene-core dependency.

What can I do to solve this?

Cheers
Christian

UPDATE: it turned out, that the local maven repos has some problems fetching the lucene jar, so that it was empty...

[Akita (B Falguière)]

Hi!

I'm getting the exact same error, but I'm not using Maven (which I know very little about), and I manually get the JARs I need (the ones in the documentation :https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/java-rest/6.1/java-rest-high-getting-started-dependencies.html and https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/java-rest/6.1/java-rest-low-usage-dependencies.html)

But obviously, at least one is missing. Which one is it or how can I know this? Where can I find it?

Thanks!

PS:
If useful, I added the following JARs :
-elasticsearch
-elasticsearch-transport
-elasticsearch-rest-client
-elasticsearch-rest-high-level-client
-elasticsearch-rest-high-level-client-sniffer (All the five are 6.1.3)

-apache's httpasyncclient 4.1.3
-httpclient 4.5.5
-httpcore 4.4.9
-httpcore-nio 4.4.9

-commons-codec 1.9
-commons-logging 1.2

[Akita (B Falguière)]

I ended up using Maven, of course.

Piece of advice for those who want to do a small project like me and not use Maven: use Maven. "elasticsearch-rest-high-level-client" is recursively relying on 60 or 70 dependencies. Maven (or Gradle) handles everything.