@Grab is not working in my Eclipse Groovy project


Following is my groovy script I am writing in my existing Java project

@Grab("org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-json")

import groovy.json.JsonSlurper
import java.util.stream.Collectors


def jsonString = '''
{
  "results": [
    {
      "foo": "bar1",
      "name": "0.45.003"
    },
    {
      "foo": "bar1",
      "name": "0.45.002"
    },
    {
      "foo": "bar1",
      "name": "0.45.001"
    }
  ]
}
'''

def jsonSlurper = new JsonSlurper()
def json = jsonSlurper.parseText(jsonString);

//json = json.results.collect( it.name )

println json

When I run this, It's failing with the folowing error

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/ivy/core/report/ResolveReport
	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 java.beans.Introspector.getPublicDeclaredMethods(Introspector.java:1336)
	at java.beans.Introspector.getTargetMethodInfo(Introspector.java:1197)
	at java.beans.Introspector.getBeanInfo(Introspector.java:426)
	at java.beans.Introspector.getBeanInfo(Introspector.java:173)
	at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl$15.run(MetaClassImpl.java:3328)
	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
	at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.addProperties(MetaClassImpl.java:3326)
	at groovy.lang.MetaClassImpl.initialize(MetaClassImpl.java:3303)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.ClassInfo.getMetaClassUnderLock(ClassInfo.java:289)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.ClassInfo.getMetaClass(ClassInfo.java:331)
	at groovy.grape.GrapeIvy.$getStaticMetaClass(GrapeIvy.groovy)
	at groovy.grape.GrapeIvy.<init>(GrapeIvy.groovy:77)
	at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
	at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
	at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:442)
	at groovy.grape.Grape.getInstance(Grape.java:121)
	at groovy.grape.Grape.grab(Grape.java:159)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
	at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
	at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.reflection.CachedMethod.invoke(CachedMethod.java:98)
	at groovy.lang.MetaMethod.doMethodInvoke(MetaMethod.java:325)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.StaticMetaMethodSite.invoke(StaticMetaMethodSite.java:46)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.StaticMetaMethodSite.callStatic(StaticMetaMethodSite.java:102)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.CallSiteArray.defaultCallStatic(CallSiteArray.java:55)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.callStatic(AbstractCallSite.java:197)
	at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.callsite.AbstractCallSite.callStatic(AbstractCallSite.java:217)
	at com.example.coll.<clinit>(coll.groovy)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.ivy.core.report.ResolveReport
	at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
	at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:349)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
	... 35 more

1 Answer

5 years ago by

Figured out myself, We need to add ivy dependencies to make this work.

1. If maven project add the following to dependencies

<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.ivy/ivy -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.apache.ivy</groupId>
    <artifactId>ivy</artifactId>
    <version>2.1.0</version>
</dependency>

2. If you are using gradle add the following to your build.gradle

compile group: 'org.apache.ivy', name: 'ivy', version: '2.1.0'
5 years ago by Eleven