RED Robot Framework Editor - Unexpected error: NoClassDefFoundError: com/github/markusbernhardt/selenium2library/utils/WebDriverCache

Question

Im using RED robot framework editor with Java. Though i have added the jar file that contains 'com/github/markusbernhardt/selenium2library/utils/WebDriverCache', it errors as "NoClassDefFoundError"

I use robotframework-selenium2library-java-1.4.0.8 for creating java library.

Below is the console command generated in RED editor.

Command: C:\jython2.7.0\bin\jython.exe -J-Dpython.path=C:\jython2.7.0\Lib\site-packages -J-cp .;C:\Java\JarsKCC\Misc.jar;C:\Java\JarsKCC\KCCUtils.jar;C:\Java\JarsKCC\GetElementList.jar;C:\jython2.7.0\selenium-server-standalone-3.3.1.jar;C:\jython2.7.0\robotframework-selenium2library-java-1.4.0.8 -m robot.run -P C:\jython2.7.0\Lib\site-packages\Selenium2Library --listener C:\Users\CON_RT~1\AppData\Local\Temp\RobotTempDir2533122362618779828\TestRunnerAgent.py:56178:False -s KCC_Automation.TestSuites.TestSeparateWebdriverInstance C:\Java\Workspace\KCC_Automation
Suite Executor: Robot Framework 3.0.2 (Jython 2.7.0 on java1.8.0_121)

Error received while execution is,

[ ERROR ] Unexpected error: NoClassDefFoundError: 
com/github/markusbernhardt/selenium2library/utils/WebDriverCache
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: 
at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:2701)
at java.lang.Class.privateGetPublicMethods(Class.java:2902)
at java.lang.Class.getMethods(Class.java:1615)
at robot.utils.importer$py.import_$32(C:\jython2.7.0\Lib\site-packages\robot\utils\importer.py:274)
at robot.utils.importer$py.call_function(C:\jython2.7.0\Lib\site-packages\robot\utils\importer.py)
at robot.utils.importer$py._import_class_or_module$5(C:\jython2.7.0\Lib\site-packages\robot\utils\importer.py:77)
at robot.utils.importer$py.call_function(C:\jython2.7.0\Lib\site-packages\robot\utils\importer.py)
at robot.utils.importer$py.import_class_or_module$4(C:\jython2.7.0\Lib\site-packages\robot\utils\importer.py:74)
at robot.utils.importer$py.call_function(C:\jython2.7.0\Lib\site-packages\robot\utils\importer.py)
at robot.model.visitor$py.visit_suite$2(C:\jython2.7.0\Lib\site-packages\robot\model\visitor.py:88)
at robot.model.visitor$py.call_function(C:\jython2.7.0\Lib\site-packages\robot\model\visitor.py)
at robot.model.testsuite$py.visit$19(C:\jython2.7.0\Lib\site-packages\robot\model\testsuite.py:161)
at robot.model.testsuite$py.call_function(C:\jython2.7.0\Lib\site-packages\robot\model\testsuite.py)
at robot.model.itemlist$py.visit$11(C:\jython2.7.0\Lib\site-packages\robot\model\itemlist.py:75)
at robot.model.itemlist$py.call_function(C:\jython2.7.0\Lib\site-packages\robot\model\itemlist.py)
at robot.model.visitor$py.visit_suite$2(C:\jython2.7.0\Lib\site-packages\robot\model\visitor.py:88)
at robot.model.visitor$py.call_function(C:\jython2.7.0\Lib\site-packages\robot\model\visitor.py)
at robot.model.testsuite$py.visit$19(C:\jython2.7.0\Lib\site-packages\robot\model\testsuite.py:161)
at robot.model.testsuite$py.call_function(C:\jython2.7.0\Lib\site-packages\robot\model\testsuite.py)
at robot.model.itemlist$py.visit$11(C:\jython2.7.0\Lib\site-packages\robot\model\itemlist.py:75)
at robot.model.itemlist$py.call_function(C:\jython2.7.0\Lib\site-packages\robot\model\itemlist.py)
at robot.model.visitor$py.visit_suite$2(C:\jython2.7.0\Lib\site-packages\robot\model\visitor.py:88)
at robot.model.visitor$py.call_function(C:\jython2.7.0\Lib\site-packages\robot\model\visitor.py)
at robot.model.testsuite$py.visit$19(C:\jython2.7.0\Lib\site-packages\robot\model\testsuite.py:161)
at robot.model.testsuite$py.call_function(C:\jython2.7.0\Lib\site-packages\robot\model\testsuite.py)
at robot.utils.application$py._execute$10(C:\jython2.7.0\Lib\site-packages\robot\utils\application.py:94)
at robot.utils.application$py.call_function(C:\jython2.7.0\Lib\site-packages\robot\utils\application.py)
at robot.utils.application$py.execute_cli$5(C:\jython2.7.0\Lib\site-packages\robot\utils\application.py:49)
at robot.utils.application$py.call_function(C:\jython2.7.0\Lib\site-packages\robot\utils\application.py)
at runpy$py._run_code$9(C:\jython2.7.0\Lib\runpy.py:73)
at runpy$py.call_function(C:\jython2.7.0\Lib\runpy.py)
at runpy$py._run_module_as_main$14(C:\jython2.7.0\Lib\runpy.py:161)
at runpy$py.call_function(C:\jython2.7.0\Lib\runpy.py)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: 
com.github.markusbernhardt.selenium2library.utils.WebDriverCache
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:331)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
... 190 more

Java code I used from this blog

Note: I also verified with the dependency jar file 'robotframework-selenium2library-java-1.4.0.8-jar-with-dependencies'. I still face the same issue.

Answer 1

The examples in the 'blog' / stackoverflow post had some issues, with the key one being that the name of the class was changed since the answer was written on SO. However, when I compiled the jar file and added the jar file to the class path section of the red.xml none of the errors mentioned in the question were encountered. As the referred SO question had two approaches, I tried them both.

It appears to me that you have specified the directory and not the jar file for the robotframework-selenium2library-java-1.4.0.8.

C:\jython2.7.0\bin\jython.exe
-J-Dpython.path=C:\jython2.7.0\Lib\site-packages
-J-cp .
;C:\Java\JarsKCC\Misc.jar
;C:\Java\JarsKCC\KCCUtils.jar
;C:\Java\JarsKCC\GetElementList.jar
;C:\jython2.7.0\selenium-server-standalone-3.3.1.jar
;C:\jython2.7.0\robotframework-selenium2library-java-1.4.0.8
-m robot.run
-P C:\jython2.7.0\Lib\site-packages\Selenium2Library
--listener C:\Users\CON_RT~1\AppData\ ... \TestRunnerAgent.py:56178:False
-s KCC_Automation.TestSuites.TestSeparateWebdriverInstance 
C:\Java\Workspace\KCC_Automation

So my advice is to change this so that the classpath reflects the jar file: ;C:\jython2.7.0\robotframework-selenium2library-java-1.4.0.8\some-jar-name.jar