Test started failing with java.lang.NoSuchMethodError

Question

Started getting this error when trying to run the test that was just running fine. No idea what happened!

Step failed
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: 'void org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.ClientConfig.<init>(java.net.URI, java.time.Duration, java.time.Duration, org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.Filter, java.net.Proxy, org.openqa.selenium.Credentials)'
    at io.appium.java_client.AppiumClientConfig.<init>(AppiumClientConfig.java:62)
    at io.appium.java_client.AppiumClientConfig.defaultConfig(AppiumClientConfig.java:79)
    at io.appium.java_client.remote.AppiumCommandExecutor.<init>(AppiumCommandExecutor.java:109)
    at io.appium.java_client.AppiumDriver.<init>(AppiumDriver.java:101)
    at io.appium.java_client.android.AndroidDriver.<init>(AndroidDriver.java:113)

POM (had to remove unnecessary code):

xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd" 4.0.0

<maven.compiler.source>20</maven.compiler.source> <maven.compiler.target>20</maven.compiler.target>
<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>

io.appium java-client 8.5.1
org.junit.jupiter junit-jupiter 5.10.0 test
io.cucumber cucumber-core 7.13.0
io.cucumber cucumber-html 0.2.7
io.github.devopsplugin cobertura 0.0.2
io.cucumber cucumber-java 7.13.0
io.cucumber cucumber-jvm-deps 1.0.6 provided
net.masterthought cucumber-reporting 5.7.6
org.hamcrest hamcrest 2.2 test
io.cucumber gherkin 26.2.0
io.cucumber cucumber-java 7.13.0
org.seleniumhq.selenium selenium-java 4.11.0
io.cucumber cucumber-junit 7.13.0
io.cucumber cucumber-junit 7.13.0
io.cucumber cucumber-junit 7.13.0
io.cucumber cucumber-junit 7.13.0
io.cucumber cucumber-junit 7.13.0
io.cucumber cucumber-junit 7.13.0
io.cucumber cucumber-junit 7.13.0
io.cucumber cucumber-junit 7.13.0
io.cucumber cucumber-junit 7.13.0
io.github.bonigarcia webdrivermanager 5.5.3
org.jetbrains annotations RELEASE compile

Answer 1

Signature of constructor of ClientConfig class changed between 4.14.0 and 4.13.0 version. That class is from selenium-http dependency, which is transitive dependency from selenium-remote-driver, on which appium is dependent on.

In their file, they set the dependency to the latest in given range -> build.gradle

So, without any changes to your dependencies, transitive dependency changed and is crashing your run.

Based on: transitive-dependencies-management.md

you can hardcode version to 4.13 which should fix the problem. Example, in your pom.xml:

<dependencies>
    <dependency> <!-- explicitly download correct dependency -->
        <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
        <artifactId>selenium-remote-driver</artifactId>
        <version>4.13.0</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>io.appium</groupId>
        <artifactId>java-client</artifactId>
        <version>8.5.1</version>
        <exclusions>
            <exclusion>  <!-- exclude what appium is downloading -->
                <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
                <artifactId>selenium-remote-driver</artifactId>
            </exclusion>
        </exclusions>
    </dependency>
</dependencies>

Answer 2

I updated the appium java-client dependency to the latest and it fixed the issue for me.

 <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/io.appium/java-client -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>io.appium</groupId>
        <artifactId>java-client</artifactId>
        <version>8.6.0</version>
    </dependency>