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lauravachon
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6 years ago

How can I include dependencies from an external jar file into a groovy script test step

Hello Community,   I am using the ready-api maven plugin. I have my dependency in the pom.xml. The depedency is being downloaded. My question is how can I use the classes in this jar file in a gr...
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  • JustinM89's avatar
    JustinM89
    6 years ago

    Within ReadyAPI, you can go to Preferences > ReadyAPI, and there is a "Custom Java libraries" section where you can point to JARs and folders, I think this may be what you're looking for. But just to clarify, you want to access classes from the readyapi-maven-plugin JAR in your Groovy scripts?

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JustinM89
Contributor
6 years ago

Within ReadyAPI, you can go to Preferences > ReadyAPI, and there is a "Custom Java libraries" section where you can point to JARs and folders, I think this may be what you're looking for. But just to clarify, you want to access classes from the readyapi-maven-plugin JAR in your Groovy scripts?

  • lauravachon's avatar
    lauravachon
    Contributor
    6 years ago

    Thank you so much. I updated that setting. The tool is able to find my class, but cannot initialize it.

     

    java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class

     

    Any ideas?

     

    Thanks for the tip on how to specify the location of the jar file JustinM89 

    • JustinM89's avatar
      JustinM89
      Contributor
      6 years ago

      Hm, unfortunately I won't be of much help here as I don't know too much about class loading, but I think the issue is with the JAR itself -- what specific class are you trying to use?

      • lauravachon's avatar
        lauravachon
        Contributor
        6 years ago

        I built the jar from java code. I included the depenencies in the jar file. The groovy script is finding the class, but cannot initialize it