HTTPClient Example - Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: INSTANCE

Question

I am using HttpClient components from Apache for the following simple program and I see the below exception:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: INSTANCE
    at org.apache.http.impl.io.DefaultHttpRequestWriterFactory.(DefaultHttpRequestWriterFactory.java:52)
    at org.apache.http.impl.io.DefaultHttpRequestWriterFactory.(DefaultHttpRequestWriterFactory.java:56)
    at org.apache.http.impl.io.DefaultHttpRequestWriterFactory.(DefaultHttpRequestWriterFactory.java:46)
    at org.apache.http.impl.conn.ManagedHttpClientConnectionFactory.(ManagedHttpClientConnectionFactory.java:72)
    at org.apache.http.impl.conn.ManagedHttpClientConnectionFactory.(ManagedHttpClientConnectionFactory.java:84)
    at org.apache.http.impl.conn.ManagedHttpClientConnectionFactory.(ManagedHttpClientConnectionFactory.java:59)
    at org.apache.http.impl.conn.PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager$InternalConnectionFactory.(PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.java:487)
    at org.apache.http.impl.conn.PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.(PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.java:147)
    at org.apache.http.impl.conn.PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.(PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.java:136)
    at org.apache.http.impl.conn.PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.(PoolingHttpClientConnectionManager.java:112)
    at org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClientBuilder.build(HttpClientBuilder.java:726)
    at com.starwood.rms.controller.property.HttpExample.main(HttpExample.java:14)

public class HttpExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        HttpClient client = HttpClientBuilder.create().build();
        HttpGet request = new HttpGet("https://www.google.com/?q=java");

        try {
            HttpResponse response = client.execute(request);
            System.out.println(response.getStatusLine());

        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

I am using

• Httpclient-4.3.3.jar
• Httpcore-4.3.2.jar

Any ideas?

Answer 1

I had this problem with Hadoop. It used an old version of httpclient-4.2.5.jar and httpcore-4.2.5.jar in their shared lib.

I solved this by shading parts via the maven-shade-plugin

<relocations>
    <relocation>
        <pattern>org.apache.http</pattern>
        <shadedPattern>shaded.org.apache.http</shadedPattern>
    </relocation>
</relocations>