# Compiler error - very strange problem with dependencies **URL:** \ **Category:** Old Forum Archive\ **Created:** [January 22, 2014, 11:03pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/compiler-error-very-strange-problem-with-dependencies/2262 "2014-01-22T23:03:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![leifhanack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a4c791/32.png) [@leifhanack](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/leifhanack)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 11:03pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/compiler-error-very-strange-problem-with-dependencies/2262/1 "2014-01-22T23:03:00Z")
I’m a little lost:) I have a simple gradle file where I added the groovy http-builder libraray: ```gradle dependencies { compile "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web:${springBootStarterVersion}" compile "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-actuator:${springBootStarterVersion}" testCompile 'org.codehaus.groovy.modules.http-builder:http-builder:0.6' } ``` Next I have a groovy test case with: ```gradle import org.junit.Test import groovyx.net.http.RESTClient class MyContractTest { @Test public void testIt() { def client = new RESTClient("http://localhost:8000") def resp = client.get(path : "/") assert resp.status == 200 assert resp.data.text == "Greetings from Spring Boot!" } } ``` When I run ‘gradle compileTestGroovy’ I get: ```gradle /Users/leif.hanack/projects/sample/src/test/groovy/MyContractTest.groovy: 2: unable to resolve class groovyx.net.http.RESTClient @ line 2, column 1. import groovyx.net.http.RESTClient ^ 1 error ``` Checking the deps show me that the lib is part of the classpath: ```gradle .. testCompile - Compile classpath for source set 'test'. +--- org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-all:2.1.1 +--- org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web:1.0.0.RC1 | +--- org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter:1.0.0.RC1 .. \--- org.codehaus.groovy.modules.http-builder:http-builder:0.6 +--- org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient:4.2.1 | +--- org.apache.httpcomponents:httpcore:4.2.1 | +--- commons-logging:commons-logging:1.1.1 | \--- commons-codec:commons-codec:1.6 +--- net.sf.json-lib:json-lib:2.3 | +--- commons-beanutils:commons-beanutils:1.8.0 | | \--- commons-logging:commons-logging:1.1.1 | +--- commons-collections:commons-collections:3.2.1 | +--- commons-lang:commons-lang:2.4 | +--- commons-logging:commons-logging:1.1.1 | \--- net.sf.ezmorph:ezmorph:1.0.6 | \--- commons-lang:commons-lang:2.3 -> 2.4 +--- org.codehaus.groovy:groovy:1.8.8 | +--- antlr:antlr:2.7.7 | +--- asm:asm:3.2 | +--- asm:asm-commons:3.2 | | \--- asm:asm-tree:3.2 | | \--- asm:asm:3.2 | +--- asm:asm-util:3.2 | | \--- asm:asm-tree:3.2 (*) | +--- asm:asm-analysis:3.2 | | \--- asm:asm-tree:3.2 (*) | \--- asm:asm-tree:3.2 (*) +--- net.sourceforge.nekohtml:nekohtml:1.9.16 | \--- xerces:xercesImpl:2.9.1 | \--- xml-apis:xml-apis:1.3.04 \--- xml-resolver:xml-resolver:1.2 ``` Next I tried that code on another machine and it worked! I checked that I have the same versions for groovy, gradle, IntellijIdea, but that simple test won’t compile. Did anyone have had such a strange problem? Thanks a lot for any pointer! Regards, Leif ---
**Author:** ![Rene](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/gradle/user_avatar/discuss.gradle.org/rene/32/8082_2.png) [@Rene](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/Rene)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 11:13pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/compiler-error-very-strange-problem-with-dependencies/2262/2 "2014-01-22T23:13:00Z")
The first thing I would check is, if it’s working on a clean cache. try building with “-g .” to relocate the cache for the build ---
**Author:** ![leifhanack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a4c791/32.png) [@leifhanack](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/leifhanack)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 11:21pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/compiler-error-very-strange-problem-with-dependencies/2262/3 "2014-01-22T23:21:00Z")
Thanks Rene, unfortunately it doesn’t helped. ---
**Author:** ![Rene](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/gradle/user_avatar/discuss.gradle.org/rene/32/8082_2.png) [@Rene](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/Rene)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2014, 11:45pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/compiler-error-very-strange-problem-with-dependencies/2262/4 "2014-01-22T23:45:00Z")
hmm. hard to say what’s going wrong in your code. just double checked in on my machine and it works fine here. can you double check the compile classpath by adding ```gradle compileTestGroovy{ doFirst{ println classpath.asPath } } ``` and checking if http-builder is listed? ---
**Author:** ![leifhanack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a4c791/32.png) [@leifhanack](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/leifhanack)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 9:04am UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/compiler-error-very-strange-problem-with-dependencies/2262/5 "2014-01-23T09:04:00Z")
Mmmh?! ```gradle :/Users/leif.hanack/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/org.codehaus.groovy.modules.http-builder/http-builder/0.6/ca89dfdfdb9ef1d2c3eb4a7d6a96985f0d656fb9/http-builder-0.6.jar: ``` Weired! ---
**Author:** ![Rene](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/gradle/user_avatar/discuss.gradle.org/rene/32/8082_2.png) [@Rene](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/Rene)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 9:08am UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/compiler-error-very-strange-problem-with-dependencies/2262/6 "2014-01-23T09:08:00Z")
really weired. Have you tested if it makes a different to build it “with daemon” / “without daemon”? Do you have any other buildlogic (maybe injected by a parent project or auto applied init scripts) that might interfer here? really hard to say at this point what’s going on here ---
**Author:** ![leifhanack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a4c791/32.png) [@leifhanack](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/leifhanack)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 10:57am UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/compiler-error-very-strange-problem-with-dependencies/2262/7 "2014-01-23T10:57:00Z")
I’ll retry it tonight with a striped down version and will let you know the results. Thanks so far! ---
**Author:** ![leifhanack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a4c791/32.png) [@leifhanack](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/leifhanack)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2014, 10:22pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/compiler-error-very-strange-problem-with-dependencies/2262/8 "2014-01-23T22:22:00Z")
Alrighty, I found the problem! ```gradle repositories { mavenLocal() maven { url project["nexus.public.url"] credentials { username project["nexus.username"] password project["nexus.password"] } } mavenCentral() } ``` The 2nd repository (“nexus.public.url”) points to our corporate network. If that is not reachable it seems as if the 3rd (mavenCentral) is not taken to resolve the dependencies. If I comment out the corporate repository everything works as expected. I have sent you a sample project which should help to reproduce it. Regards, Leif