I get a NoClassDefFoundError using Restlet with Google App Engine and GWT.
I’m trying to get Json respresentations of my objects. The error I get is:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/codehaus/jackson/JsonGenerator$Feature
A basic skeleton of the method where I get the error is:
@Get("json")
public Representation getProduct() {
Product product = new Product("whatever");
return new JacksonRepresentation<Product>(MediaType.APPLICATION_JSON, product);
}
Initially I got an error for the JsonFactory class when using only the Restlet provided JAR’s. I then downloaded the `jackson-all-1.9.7.jar. That error has since been replaced by this new one.
Any idea what’s going on ?? Maybe I’m missing some libraries but I can figure out which ones.
EDIT: Including the stacktrace. I removed all the libs and just ran off the Restlet org.restlet.ext.jackson JAR. Also, to check if the class is available at compile time as implied by the answer below, I tried check for autocomplete for the class and package in Eclipse and it doesn’t show anything. I’m assuming this means that its not available at compile time either.
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/codehaus/jackson/JsonFactory
at org.restlet.ext.jackson.JacksonRepresentation.createObjectMapper(JacksonRepresentation.java:118)
at org.restlet.ext.jackson.JacksonRepresentation.getObjectMapper(JacksonRepresentation.java:164)
at org.restlet.ext.jackson.JacksonRepresentation.write(JacksonRepresentation.java:205)
at org.restlet.representation.WriterRepresentation.write(WriterRepresentation.java:104)
at org.restlet.engine.http.ServerCall.writeResponseBody(ServerCall.java:550)
at org.restlet.engine.http.ServerCall.sendResponse(ServerCall.java:488)
at org.restlet.ext.servlet.internal.ServletCall.sendResponse(ServletCall.java:492)
at org.restlet.engine.http.adapter.ServerAdapter.commit(ServerAdapter.java:197)
at org.restlet.engine.http.HttpServerHelper.handle(HttpServerHelper.java:151)
at org.restlet.ext.servlet.ServerServlet.service(ServerServlet.java:1028)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:511)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1166)
at com.google.appengine.tools.development.HeaderVerificationFilter.doFilter(HeaderVerificationFilter.java:35)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1157)
at com.google.appengine.api.blobstore.dev.ServeBlobFilter.doFilter(ServeBlobFilter.java:60)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1157)
at com.google.apphosting.utils.servlet.TransactionCleanupFilter.doFilter(TransactionCleanupFilter.java:43)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1157)
at com.google.appengine.tools.development.StaticFileFilter.doFilter(StaticFileFilter.java:122)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1157)
at com.google.appengine.tools.development.BackendServersFilter.doFilter(BackendServersFilter.java:97)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1157)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:388)
at org.mortbay.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:216)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionHandler.handle(SessionHandler.java:182)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.handle(ContextHandler.java:765)
at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.handle(WebAppContext.java:418)
at com.google.appengine.tools.development.DevAppEngineWebAppContext.handle(DevAppEngineWebAppContext.java:78)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:152)
at com.google.appengine.tools.development.JettyContainerService$ApiProxyHandler.handle(JettyContainerService.java:369)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:152)
at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.handle(Server.java:326)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handleRequest(HttpConnection.java:542)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection$RequestHandler.headerComplete(HttpConnection.java:923)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:547)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:212)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:404)
at org.mortbay.io.nio.SelectChannelEndPoint.run(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:409)
at org.mortbay.thread.QueuedThreadPool$PoolThread.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:582)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.codehaus.jackson.JsonFactory
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at com.google.appengine.tools.development.IsolatedAppClassLoader.loadClass(IsolatedAppClassLoader.java:176)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
... 40 more
Also, if you look in the lib directory of the Restlet version that you downloaded, you will see a readme.txt that will tell you some of the jars that you need to include when you use various Restlet Extensions. For example, the readme.txt should have something like the following:
org.restlet.ext.jackson (Restlet Extension – Jackson)
Thus, if you are using Jackson with Restlet (org.restlet.ext.jackson.jar), you will also need to include the two other jars listed below it.