How do you interpret “java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: No direct method”?

Question

We decided, perhaps naively, that we should update many of our libraries from two-year-old 1.12.0-betas to nice new versions 1.20.0. For example: we updated google-http-clie

Answer 1

It just means that a constructor for AbstractGoogleJsonClient with a particular argument list wasn't available.

Check your super() calls for your subclass(es) of AbstractGoogleJsonClient and make sure you don't need to update the argument list to match your updated libraries.

If that's not in your source code, then there may be a library version dependency issue with Google API client library.