java Play add jar to lib

Question

I'm trying to add org.json.simple.

I have created my lib folder in root and added the jar file and restarted my project with sbt run.

I still get package org.json.simple does not exist.

I tried to add to the build.sbt (this did not work):

libraryDependencies += "org.json.simple.JSONArray% "JSONArray" % "3.1.1"
libraryDependencies += "org.json.simple.JSONObject% "JSONObject" % "3.1.1"

IDE: VS Code

System: MAC

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 19 '20 at 13:05

You need to add dependencies to libaries in libraryDependencies. Right now, you are trying to specify classes, which will not work.

Instead, you need to use

libraryDependencies += "com.github.cliftonlabs" % "json-simple" % "3.1.1"

Note that above dependency is probably not the one you need, as it uses a different package and class names, I picked it as it has the same version as you specify. Maybe you need to use "com.googlecode.json-simple" % "json-simple" % "1.1.1" instead.

this works when adding the jar for 1.1.1 to the lib folder. Thank you — majortom84, Feb 21 '20 at 19:57

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