NoSuchMethodError：com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonStreamContext

Question

I'm trying to bump the jackson version number from 2.8.6 to 2.9.8 and it is just not working the way it is supposed to work.

It's giving this error:

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonStreamContext.<init>(II)V

    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.util.TokenBufferReadContext.<init>(TokenBufferReadContext.java:59)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.util.TokenBufferReadContext.createRootContext(TokenBufferReadContext.java:89)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.util.TokenBuffer$Parser.<init>(TokenBuffer.java:1298)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.util.TokenBuffer.asParser(TokenBuffer.java:276)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.util.TokenBuffer.asParser(TokenBuffer.java:242)
    at com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper.valueToTree(ObjectMapper.java:2798)
    at com.example.FooTest.testFilter(FooTest.java:34)
    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.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod$1.runReflectiveCall(FrameworkMethod.java:50)
    at org.junit.internal.runners.model.ReflectiveCallable.run(ReflectiveCallable.java:12)
    at org.junit.runners.model.FrameworkMethod.invokeExplosively(FrameworkMethod.java:47)
    at org.junit.internal.runners.statements.InvokeMethod.evaluate(InvokeMethod.java:17)
    at org.junit.internal.runners.statements.RunBefores.evaluate(RunBefores.java:26)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runLeaf(ParentRunner.java:325)
    at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:78)
    at org.junit.runners.BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.runChild(BlockJUnit4ClassRunner.java:57)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$3.run(ParentRunner.java:290)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$1.schedule(ParentRunner.java:71)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.runChildren(ParentRunner.java:288)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.access$000(ParentRunner.java:58)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner$2.evaluate(ParentRunner.java:268)
    at org.junit.runners.ParentRunner.run(ParentRunner.java:363)
    at org.junit.runner.JUnitCore.run(JUnitCore.java:137)
    at com.intellij.junit4.JUnit4IdeaTestRunner.startRunnerWithArgs(JUnit4IdeaTestRunner.java:68)
    at com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.IdeaTestRunner$Repeater.startRunnerWithArgs(IdeaTestRunner.java:47)
    at com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.JUnitStarter.prepareStreamsAndStart(JUnitStarter.java:242)
    at com.intellij.rt.execution.junit.JUnitStarter.main(JUnitStarter.java:70)

Has anyone else seen this?

Answer 1

You can try to exclude all "stale" transient dependencies.

Fe, as you said, you have Sentry 1.7.16 which depends on the old version of jackson-core (2.8.7). So, in your pom.xml you have smth like this:

    <dependency>
        <groupId>io.sentry</groupId>
        <artifactId>sentry</artifactId>
        <version>1.7.16</version>
    </dependency>

Now replace it with :

    <dependency>
        <groupId>io.sentry</groupId>
        <artifactId>sentry</artifactId>
        <version>1.7.16</version>
        <exclusions>
            <exclusion>
                <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
                <artifactId>jackson-core</artifactId>
            </exclusion>
        </exclusions>
    </dependency>

It will exclude that transient dependency on the old jackson-core. Note that you don't need to specify the version in the exclusion block.

Do the same with other conflicting libraries if needed.