org/openqa/selenium/remote/internal/JsonToWebElementConverter

Issues/Bugs
1

Getting this error :
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/openqa/selenium/remote/internal/JsonToWebElementConverter
at com.intellij.rt.testng.RemoteTestNGStarter.main(RemoteTestNGStarter.java:109)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.openqa.selenium.remote.internal.JsonToWebElementConverter
at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:636)
at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoaders.java:182)
at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:519)

My code
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
capabilities.setCapability(“platformName”, “android”);
capabilities.setCapability(“platformVersion”, “9”);
capabilities.setCapability(“deviceName”,device_ip+":5555");
capabilities.setCapability(“automationName”,“uiAutomator2”);
capabilities.setCapability(“newCommandTimeout”, “45000”);
capabilities.setCapability(“noReset”,true);
driver = new AndroidDriver(new URL(“http://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hub”),capabilities);

Getting error at line new AndriodDriver

This error started to come after I upgraded Selenium version to 4.0.0 & Appium Java Client 7.6.0.

Any suggestion, how to solve it

2

This is expected. Consider witching to v8-beta of java client

3

I tried switching to 8.0.0-beta, but no luck.

io.appium
java-client
8.0.0-beta

Getting compilation error for line public AppiumDriver driver;

4

Version 8 of the client has several breaking changes. Make sure you follow the migration guide

5

Thanks for prompt response. Is Appium 8.0 changes stable? Commit is done recently. Do you have any example project which uses Appium 8.x jar file? I have a single framework which is used for Web apps as well mobile app testing. Recently, I upgraded Selenium version to 4.0, it started to break.

6

Mostly they are, but it’s still in beta, which means that some more changes are possible. Unfortunately there is currently no other way to use Selenium 4 with Appium java client.

7

true. A query out of curiosity, why do we need so many breaking changes in Appium 8.0? What are the problems it is solving?

8

These changes are mostly related to the foundation fixes in the internal library architecture. They would make it possible to solve issues similar to https://github.com/appium/java-client/issues/1455

9

I am following migration doc, could not find detail about methods like hideKeyboard(), launchApp(), closeApp() mobileelement.getId() etc. Do we have list of methods/class which have been deprecated & new alternatives available?

10

Hi,
Did you find the way to solve this issue yet??
I aslo got this issue an have no idea about it.
Please help!!

11

I wrote about this on linkedin