Cannot instantiate jira-rest-java-client-core, ClassNotFoundException ThreadLocalContextManager

[Christian Lipp]

I'm am using Kotlin and `jira-rest-java-client-core` to automate some internal process. My Gradle dependecies are:

implementation "com.atlassian.jira:jira-rest-java-client-core:5.2.1
implementation "io.atlassian.fugue:fugue:4.7.2

 When I want to create this bean

@Bean
fun getJiraRestClient(): JiraRestClient
{
    val jiraServer = URI(JIRA_SERVER_URL)
    return AsynchronousJiraRestClientFactory()
            .createWithBasicHttpAuthentication(jiraServer, jiraUser, jiraPassword)
}

I receive the exception

org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'getJiraRestClient' defined in class path resource [at/oebb/tools/pnw/jira/JiraConfiguration.class]: Bean instantiation via factory method failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Failed to instantiate [com.atlassian.jira.rest.client.api.JiraRestClient]: Factory method 'getJiraRestClient' threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/atlassian/sal/api/executor/ThreadLocalContextManager
Caused by:
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ConstructorResolver.instantiate(ConstructorResolver.java:655)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ConstructorResolver.instantiateUsingFactoryMethod(ConstructorResolver.java:483)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.instantiateUsingFactoryMethod(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1336)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBeanInstance(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1176)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:556)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:516)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.lambda$doGetBean$0(AbstractBeanFactory.java:324)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:226)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:322)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:202)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.preInstantiateSingletons(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:897)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.finishBeanFactoryInitialization(AbstractApplicationContext.java:879)
at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:551)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refresh(SpringApplication.java:758)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refresh(SpringApplication.java:750)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.refreshContext(SpringApplication.java:397)
at org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication.run(SpringApplication.java:315)
at org.springframework.boot.test.context.SpringBootContextLoader.loadContext(SpringBootContextLoader.java:120)
at org.springframework.test.context.cache.DefaultCacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.loadContextInternal(DefaultCacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.java:99)
at org.springframework.test.context.cache.DefaultCacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.loadContext(DefaultCacheAwareContextLoaderDelegate.java:124)
... 51 more

Caused by:
org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Failed to instantiate [com.atlassian.jira.rest.client.api.JiraRestClient]: Factory method 'getJiraRestClient' threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/atlassian/sal/api/executor/ThreadLocalContextManager
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.SimpleInstantiationStrategy.instantiate(SimpleInstantiationStrategy.java:185)
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ConstructorResolver.instantiate(ConstructorResolver.java:650)
... 70 more

Caused by:
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/atlassian/sal/api/executor/ThreadLocalContextManager
at com.atlassian.jira.rest.client.internal.async.AsynchronousJiraRestClientFactory.create(AsynchronousJiraRestClientFactory.java:35)
at com.atlassian.jira.rest.client.internal.async.AsynchronousJiraRestClientFactory.createWithBasicHttpAuthentication(AsynchronousJiraRestClientFactory.java:42)

However the library "com.atlassian.sal:sal-api:3.0.7" is there (indirect dependecy)

[Christian Lipp · Accepted solution]

com.atlassian.sal:sal-api:3.0.7

`was a transitive dependency, but it is a plugin. I took a look at the feature matrix  and since we are using Jira 7.1 I choose SAL 3.0.3. The dependency has to be included as runtime, so I added

runtimeOnly "com.atlassian.sal:sal-api:3.0.3"

This version has a transitve dependency 

com.atlassian.sal:sal-api:atlassian-plugin:3.0.7

`which is not included  in

com.atlassian.sal:sal-api:3.0.7

, but solves the problem.