Question

Similar to this question I have a small groovy test script that basically uses the example from opencsv java library:

import au.com.bytecode.opencsv.CSVReader

CSVReader reader = new CSVReader(new FileReader("GroovyTest.csv"));
    String [] nextLine;
    while ((nextLine = reader.readNext()) != null) {
        // nextLine[] is an array of values from the line
        System.out.println(nextLine[0] + nextLine[1] + "etc...");
    }

I keep getting the error “unable to resolve class au.com.bytecode.opencsv.CSVReader”. I even put the opencsv jar file in the same directory as my script but it does not recognize it. I assumed this was a classpath issue so I tried with -cp tag only to receive the same error.

I am running from the command line as $ groovy testg.groovy

Answer 1

Groovy won’t automatically pick up jars from the current working directory. You can either call groovy with a classpath (-cp <classpath>), or put the jar file ${user.home}/.groovy/lib.

Your example worked for me when I launched it like this:

groovy -cp opencsv-2.2/deploy/opencsv-2.2.jar testg.groovy