Java Selenium error: NoClassDefFoundError: org/openqa/selenium/HasAuthentication

Question

I use Java with Selenium (in general I use ChromeDriver) with Eclipse IDE and I get an error when I try to run:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/openqa/selenium/HasAuthentication
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:763)
    at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:468)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:74)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:369)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:363)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:362)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:349)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:763)
    at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:468)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:74)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:369)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:363)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:362)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:349)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
    at crawler.House.getRooms(House.java:166)
    at model.Main.main(Main.java:258)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.openqa.selenium.HasAuthentication
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:382)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:349)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
    ... 26 more

The Selenium is imported with Maven, here is my pom.xml file (for project A):

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>licenta-crawling</groupId>
  <artifactId>licenta-crawling</artifactId>
  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <build>
    <sourceDirectory>src</sourceDirectory>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>3.8.1</version>
        <configuration>
          <source>1.8</source>
          <target>1.8</target>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
  <dependencies>
  <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.jsoup/jsoup -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.jsoup</groupId>
        <artifactId>jsoup</artifactId>
        <version>1.14.2</version>
    </dependency>
    
    

    <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.seleniumhq.selenium/htmlunit-driver-->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
        <artifactId>htmlunit-driver</artifactId>
        <version>2.52.0</version>
    </dependency>
    
    <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.seleniumhq.selenium/selenium-java -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
        <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
        <version>4.0.0-rc-1</version>
    </dependency>


  </dependencies>
</project>

What should I do? In another project (let's say project B), the same block of code from project A works perfect, without errors, here is a pom.xml file for project B:

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>SpellChecker</groupId>
  <artifactId>SpellChecker</artifactId>
  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <build>
    <sourceDirectory>src</sourceDirectory>
    <resources>
      <resource>
        <directory>src</directory>
        <excludes>
          <exclude>**/*.java</exclude>
        </excludes>
      </resource>
    </resources>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
        <version>3.8.1</version>
        <configuration>
          <source>1.8</source>
          <target>1.8</target>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>
    </plugins>
  </build>
  <dependencies>

    
    
  <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.jsoup/jsoup -->
  <dependency>
       <groupId>org.jsoup</groupId>
       <artifactId>jsoup</artifactId>
       <version>1.13.1</version>
  </dependency>
    

    <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.seleniumhq.selenium/selenium-htmlunit-driver -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
        <artifactId>selenium-htmlunit-driver</artifactId>
        <version>2.52.0</version>
    </dependency>
    
    
    
    <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.apache.httpcomponents/httpclient -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.httpcomponents</groupId>
        <artifactId>httpclient</artifactId>
        <version>4.5.13</version>
    </dependency>
    
 
     <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.squareup.okhttp3/okhttp -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.squareup.okhttp3</groupId>
        <artifactId>okhttp</artifactId>
        <version>4.9.1</version>
    </dependency>
 
 
     <dependency>
        <groupId>com.fasterxml.jackson.core</groupId>
        <artifactId>jackson-databind</artifactId>
        <version>2.11.1</version>
    </dependency>
    
        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.openjfx/javafx -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.openjfx</groupId>
        <artifactId>javafx</artifactId>
        <version>11</version>
        <type>pom</type>
    </dependency>
    
    
    <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.seleniumhq.selenium/selenium-java -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
        <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
        <version>4.0.0-rc-1</version>
    </dependency>
    
    
 
    <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.slf4j/slf4j-api -->
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
        <artifactId>slf4j-api</artifactId>
        <version>2.0.0-alpha5</version>
    </dependency>
        
     <dependency>
      <groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>
      <artifactId>guava</artifactId>
      <version>24.0-jre</version>
    </dependency>
 
 
     <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.seleniumhq.selenium/htmlunit-driver -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
            <artifactId>htmlunit-driver</artifactId>
            <version>2.52.0</version>
        </dependency>
 
  </dependencies>
</project>

The version for dependencies selenium-java and htmlunit-driver are the same (in project A and project B), and I don't think that the extra dependencies from project B affect the result. I tried to search for similar question but I didn't find a solution, also I didn't find a question with contains error about HasAuthentication.

By URL you mean the URL for chrome driver (the URL for the page which will be load)? Yes, it its the same URL, but project A got the error from start, he didn't reach to open the simulated browser, the problem begin when I use driver.get(url) — dacian, Oct 16 '21 at 12:06
As per Selenium API doc's.. if website requires any authentication through URL then this error occurs. Please refer https://selenium.dev/selenium/docs/api/java/org/openqa/selenium/HasAuthentication.html — Nandan A, Oct 16 '21 at 12:17

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 31 '22 at 20:03

With selenium 4 I had to add selenium-api as dependency. Seems the class resides in this package.

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
    <artifactId>selenium-api</artifactId>
    <version>4.1.3</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 12 '22 at 11:37

I have the same problem with Selenium 4 on SpringBoot + Gradle project. Downgrade of Selenium dependancy to 3.141.59 helped. Hope thats an option for you.

Gradle dependancies:

    implementation 'org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-java:3.141.59'
    implementation 'org.seleniumhq.selenium:selenium-chrome-driver:3.141.59'

Java Selenium error: NoClassDefFoundError: org/openqa/selenium/HasAuthentication

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