dependencies org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel

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Hello.

I tested my java code with
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument
and it worked very well.

Then I used:
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPage;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPageContentStream;
import org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDType1Font;

public class GradleTutorial {

gradle clean works. But gradle build produces a lot of errors.
It seems to build a fat-jar. Is there another method to accomplish it?

my build.gradle

repositories {
mavenCentral()
}

apply plugin: “java”

dependencies {

compile 'org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox:1.8.14'

}

sourceSets {
main.java.srcDir “src/main/java/”
}

jar {
from configurations.compile.collect { zipTree it}
manifest.attributes “Main-Class”: “GradleTutorial”
}

2

Hi everyone,
I have such a similar problem. My project is a Spring Boot with Gradle as a dependency manager. I included PdfBox dependency in my “build.gradle” file, but from my app I’m not able to use its classes since they “cannot be resolved”. I don’t know what’s wrong with my files.
Here is my build.gradle

plugins {
	id 'org.springframework.boot' version '2.3.0.RELEASE'
	id 'io.spring.dependency-management' version '1.0.9.RELEASE'
	id 'java'
}

group = 'com.demo'
sourceCompatibility = '11'

configurations {
	compileOnly {
		extendsFrom annotationProcessor
	}
}

repositories {
	mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
	implementation('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web-services') {
		exclude group: 'org.springframework.boot', module: 'spring-boot-starter-tomcat'
	}
	implementation 'commons-io:commons-io:2.7'
	implementation 'commons-codec:commons-codec:1.14'
	compileOnly 'com.googlecode.xades4j:xades4j:1.5.1'
	compileOnly 'org.projectlombok:lombok'
	compileOnly 'org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox:2.0.20'
	developmentOnly 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-devtools'
	annotationProcessor 'org.projectlombok:lombok'
	testImplementation('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test') {
		exclude group: 'org.junit.vintage', module: 'junit-vintage-engine'
	}
}

test {
	useJUnitPlatform()
}

Then I try to do this in my java app

    PDDocument doc = PDDocument.load(pdfFile);

And it shows me “PDDocument cannot be resolved”. What am I doing wrong? please help.

3

@shiroukamui You are using compileOnly 'org.apache.pdfbox:pdfbox:2.0.20' so the classes are not available in your code. You need to use implementation instead.

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Hi gotson,
Thank you so much for your help, that solved my problem. Now everything is nice and smooth. :grin: :+1: