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Jesse Aldridge
Jesse Aldridge

Reputation: 8149

Run code in maven project... class not found

I am looking at this project: https://github.com/xtuhcy/gecco

It includes some demo code: https://github.com/xtuhcy/gecco/blob/master/src/test/java/com/geccocrawler/gecco/demo/MyGithub.java

I cloned the repo.

I'm trying to run the demo code but I can't figure out how.

I don't really understand how to use maven.

I managed to install maven and install the dependencies for the project.

mvn verify and mvn test both run without error

I found this article:

http://www.vineetmanohar.com/2009/11/3-ways-to-run-java-main-from-maven/

Which suggests doing something like this:

mvn exec:java -Dexec.mainClass="com.vineetmanohar.module.Main"

But I can't figure how what the value of mainClass should be.

I have tried:

mvn exec:java -Dexec.mainClass="com.geccocrawler.gecco.demo.MyGithub"
mvn exec:java -Dexec.mainClass="test.java.com.geccocrawler.gecco.demo.MyGithub"

both result in java.lang.ClassNotFoundException

I also tried:

java -cp target/gecco-1.3.1.jar com.geccocrawler.gecco.demo.MyGithub
java -cp target/gecco-1.3.1.jar test.java.com.geccocrawler.gecco.demo.MyGithub

neither worked

Upvotes: 0

Views: 399

Answers (1)

Mark Bramnik
Mark Bramnik

Reputation: 42431

Ugh, you've made everything right, the issue is that the class that you're trying to run is in src/test/java... and not in src/main/java/. I'll explain.

Maven is pretty advanced build tool, it differentiates between sources that will reach "production" eventually and the tests that are executed during the build process.

More specifically it provides different classpaths for them, so that for tests for example you'll want to have a testing framework in a classpath and for production its irrelevant.

Tests should be tests and not something with "main" method (tests unlike real classes do not have the main method and are driven by testing framework). This is maven's "by-the-book" approach.

But this project for some reason uses the classes with method main in folder that should contain tests (I admin, I've seen this from time to time in other projects as well).

So you need to run the classs with the "classpath" of tests (otherwise maven won't see this class at all), here is how its done:

mvn exec:java -Dexec.mainClass="com.geccocrawler.gecco.demo.MyGithub" -Dexec.classpathScope=test

Upvotes: 1

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