Can't compile my javafx and selenium project due to google autoservice processor ("Unable to get public no-arg constructor")

Question

I'm trying to compile my Instagram bot with maven. It uses javafx for the interface and selenium for the automation, and I've been stuck with this error for a long time.

When I try to do mvn clean javafx:jlink it shows me this error:

 Failed to execute goal org.openjfx:javafx-maven-plugin:0.0.3:jlink (default-cli) on project igbot: Error: Unable to execute mojo: Compilation failure
[ERROR] Bad service configuration file, or exception thrown while constructing Processor object: javax.annotation.processing.Processor: com.google.auto.service.processor.AutoServiceProcessor Unable to get public no-arg constructor

The only thing that I found about this issue is this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/36250332/15479657

I added what the answer suggested to my pom, but it doesn't seem to work

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>3.8.1</version>
    <configuration>
        <source>9</source>
        <target>9</target>
    </configuration>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <id>default-compile</id>
            <configuration>
                <compilerArgument>-proc:none</compilerArgument>
                <includes>
                    <include>com/google/auto/service/processor/AutoServiceProcessor.java</include>
                </includes>
            </configuration>
        </execution>
        <execution>
            <id>compile-project</id>
            <phase>compile</phase>
            <goals>
                <goal>compile</goal>
            </goals>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

The post had a comment after the include saying <!--include dependencies required for LogMeCustomAnnotationProcessor --> Do I have to include Google AutoServiceProcessor depencencies? And how do I get them?

I've also tried to manually add like a dependency Google AutoServiceProcessor on my pom.xml but it doesn't work ( https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.google.auto.service/auto-service/1.0 )

What am I missing? Thank you in advance

Answer 1

Today I had a similar problem. The solution for me was to include the following into the maven-compiler-plugin configuration tag:

<annotationProcessorPaths>
    <path>
      <groupId>com.google.auto.service</groupId>
      <artifactId>auto-service</artifactId>
      <version>${auto-service.version}</version>
    </path>
</annotationProcessorPaths>

You should replace ${auto-service.version} appropriately.

So in the end it looked like:

<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
    <version>3.8.1</version>
    <configuration>
        <annotationProcessorPaths>
            <path>
                <groupId>com.google.auto.service</groupId>
                <artifactId>auto-service</artifactId>
                <version>1.0</version>
            </path>
        </annotationProcessorPaths>
    </configuration>
</plugin>