Maven compile gives: Cannot find symbol - For a class sitting in the same app

Question

It\'s a while since I met such puzzling issue. I\'m having a class that references another one sitting in another package in the same application, that is, NOT in another jar ar

Answer 1

try to add below line in pom.xml which i feel it is missing

 <profile>
      <id>acceptance</id>
      <activation>
        <activeByDefault>false</activeByDefault>
      </activation>
      <properties>
      <test.source.dir>src/test/java/com/thalasoft/learnintouch/rest/config</test.source.dir>
      </properties>
    </profile>

Answer 2

Problem Description:

I had similar problem with my project with below structure.

project
-pom.xml

-common-module  
--src, pom.xml, etc

-web-module  
--src, pom.xml, etc (but dependent on 'common')

mvn install would run fine for common-module but gives compilation error for web-module code that uses java class from common-module (cannot find symbol). I was using JDK 8 + Maven 3.2.5, but in pom compiler lever is set to 7.

MY Solution:

I have installed JDK 7 and Maven 3.1.1 and did a mvn install. Bingo..! Every with worked fine & Build Successful.

I couldn't find a solution for my problem any where, so though of posting my fix here as it is related. (may be it could help some one)

Answer 3

With maven your tests can access to all the source code of your project (src/main/java) and all the test source code (default is src/test/java).

Here, your profile rest defines the test source directory as src/test/java/com/thalasoft/learnintouch/rest So, your test code can access everything in src/main/java and everything in src/test/java/com/thalasoft/learnintouch/rest

Your profile acceptance defines the test source directory as src/test/java/com/thalasoft/learnintouch/rest/acceptance So, your test code can access everything in src/main/java and everything in src/test/java/com/thalasoft/learnintouch/rest/acceptance. WebTestConfiguration is not accessible since it's in a package above.

To run specific tests with different profiles, I recommend to configure the surefire plugin in charge of running tests. A good example is available here : https://weblogs.java.net/blog/carcassi/archive/2011/04/21/running-integration-tests-and-unit-tests-separately-maven