Geb driver issue after upgrading to Grails 2.4.5

Question

Upon upgrading my Grails version from 2.3.6 to 2.4.5, I am now getting an exception when running Geb Spock tests.

failed to create driver from callback 'script14328041759692122350870$_run_closure1@5fcdf5ea'
geb.driver.DriverCreationException: failed to create driver from callback 'script14328041759692122350870$_run_closure1@5fcdf5ea'
    at geb.driver.CallbackDriverFactory.getDriver(CallbackDriverFactory.groovy:35)
    at geb.driver.CachingDriverFactory.getDriver_closure3(CachingDriverFactory.groovy:85)
    at geb.driver.CachingDriverFactory$SimpleCache.get(CachingDriverFactory.groovy:32)
    at geb.driver.CachingDriverFactory.getDriver(CachingDriverFactory.groovy:84)
    at geb.Configuration.createDriver(Configuration.groovy:361)
    at geb.Configuration.getDriver(Configuration.groovy:350)
    at geb.Browser.getDriver(Browser.groovy:105)
    at geb.Browser.clearCookies(Browser.groovy:496)
    at geb.spock.GebSpec.methodMissing(GebSpec.groovy:54)
    at AuthorizationAdminSpec.setupSpec(AuthorizationAdminSpec.groovy:21)
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/http/conn/SchemePortResolver
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.internal.ApacheHttpClient$Factory.getDefaultHttpClientFactory(ApacheHttpClient.java:234)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.internal.ApacheHttpClient$Factory.<init>(ApacheHttpClient.java:211)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.HttpCommandExecutor.getDefaultClientFactory(HttpCommandExecutor.java:88)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.HttpCommandExecutor.<init>(HttpCommandExecutor.java:62)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.HttpCommandExecutor.<init>(HttpCommandExecutor.java:57)
    at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.internal.NewProfileExtensionConnection.start(NewProfileExtensionConnection.java:93)
    at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.startClient(FirefoxDriver.java:246)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.<init>(RemoteWebDriver.java:114)
    at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:191)
    at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:186)
    at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:182)
    at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:99)
    at script14328041759692122350870.run_closure1(script14328041759692122350870.groovy:12)
    at geb.driver.CallbackDriverFactory.getDriver(CallbackDriverFactory.groovy:29)
    ... 9 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.http.conn.SchemePortResolver
    at org.codehaus.groovy.tools.RootLoader.findClass(RootLoader.java:175)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:425)
    at org.codehaus.groovy.tools.RootLoader.loadClass(RootLoader.java:147)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:358)
    ... 23 more

I remember encountering this exception before during my initial Geb setup in Grails 2.3.6, in which the BuildConfig and GebConfig files were not properly configured. However, upon re-checking the necessary plugins and dependencies required of Geb, I did not notice anything different for Grails 2.4.5 Also, I switched my dependency resolution from Ivy to Maven, so I double checked my maven resources to make sure the driver was loaded.

Some more info...

BuildConfig.groovy

grails.project.dependency.resolver = "maven"
grails.project.dependency.resolution = {
// inherit Grails' default dependencies
inherits("global") {
    // specify dependency exclusions here; for example, uncomment this to disable ehcache:
    // excludes 'ehcache'
}
log "warn" // log level of Ivy resolver, either 'error', 'warn', 'info', 'debug' or 'verbose'
checksums true // Whether to verify checksums on resolve

repositories {
    grailsPlugins()
    grailsHome()
    grailsCentral()

    mavenLocal()
    mavenCentral()

    mavenRepo "http://repository.jboss.com/maven2/"

    mavenRepo "http://google-api-client-libraries.appspot.com/mavenrepo"

    mavenRepo "http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/"

    mavenRepo "http://repo.jenkins-ci.org/repo"

    mavenRepo "http://repo.grails.org/grails/repo"
}

dependencies {
....
    compile "org.springframework:spring-test:4.0.9.RELEASE"

    test "org.gebish:geb-spock:0.10.0"

    test "org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-support:2.45.0"
    test "org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-firefox-driver:2.45.0"
}

plugins {
....
    test ":geb:0.10.0"
}

GebConfig.groovy

import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver
import org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxProfile

reportsDir = "target/geb-reports"
baseUrl = "http://localhost:8090/adverity/"

driver = {
    //set the firefox locale to 'en-us' since the tests expect english
    //see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9822717 for more details
    FirefoxProfile profile = new FirefoxProfile()
    profile.setPreference("intl.accept_languages", "en-us")
    def driverInstance = new FirefoxDriver(profile)
    driverInstance.manage().window().maximize()
    driverInstance
}

baseNavigatorWaiting = true
atCheckWaiting = true
autoClearCookies = false
quitCachedDriverOnShutdown = false

Any simple spec that I run will throw the same error.I tried doing the same with Chrome to test if this is a driver issue and got the same results. Both firefox and Chrome drivers work with Grails 2.3.6, but not 2.4.5.

• OS: Fedora 20
• Browser: Firefox 38

Places I have looked already...

• Book of Geb
• GebGrails git hub example
• StackOverflow

Answer 1

test 'org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient:4.3.2'

Added to the dependencies section in BuildConfig.groovy

I was not aware of this dependency as I did not see it in any documentation, but a deeper look inside the stack trace told me otherwise.