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Method not found error in Castor-XML jar file

I have a simple maven project to do some SIF calls with MDM hub, and adding castor dependencies for this.
Maven dependency added:
org.codehaus.castor
castor-xml
1.4.1
This downloaded the castor-xml-1.4.1.jar file.
Right at the line calling sipClient.process(req) below exception is thrown
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.exolab.castor.xml.Marshaller.getResolver()Lorg/exolab/castor/xml/ClassDescriptorResolver;
at com.siperian.sif.message.CastorUtil.setMappingLoader(CastorUtil.java:470)
at com.siperian.sif.message.CastorUtil.beanToXmlString(CastorUtil.java:358)
at com.siperian.sif.message.CastorUtil.beanToXmlString(CastorUtil.java:323)
at com.siperian.sif.message.CastorUtil.beanToXmlString(CastorUtil.java:309)
at com.siperian.sif.message.CastorUtil.beanToXmlString(CastorUtil.java:295)
at com.siperian.sif.client.HttpSiperianClient._process(HttpSiperianClient.java:117)
at com.siperian.sif.client.SiperianClient.process(SiperianClient.java:179)
I can see the getResolver method and classDescriptorResolver in the jar file in Java Decompiler, Images
classResolverDescriptor
getResolver method
Same exception even for 1.3.2 dependency.
Should I download any extra dependencies.
Thanks

This specific error for 2 reasons:
1- You are missing the jar file that has this method (This might not be the issue you have, as you stated you can see it when looking at the decompiled jar)
2- You have 2 or more jars in your dependencies, and it is actually looking at the jar which does not have the method you need.
How you should approach this is as follows:
Go to your ide, and open your pom.xml file
Open the Dependency Heirarchy view and search for org.codehaus.castor or castor-xml and see how many different versions you have.
If you have more than 1, and some are included as part of another jar, you can use in your pom.xml to remove the versions which you dont want.
If you like command line you can probably do the above, using mvn dependency:tree
Hope this helps you in some way.
-- Edited --
Your code is using 1.3.2 dependency. How? You can download the castor-xml.1.3.2.jar and extract it and look into the Marshaller. You will see the method getResolver() does not take any parameters, and therefore you get NoMethodFound.
´´´
/**
* Returns the ClassDescriptorResolver for use during marshalling
*
* #return the ClassDescriptorResolver
* #see #setResolver
*/
public XMLClassDescriptorResolver getResolver() {
}
´´´
Therefore you need to find out in your dependency hierarchy, will one includes this 1.3.2 jar and exclude this jar from it.
An example of how to do exclude is in pom.xml:
<dependency>
<groupId>sample.group.which.has.castor.in.it</groupId>
<artifactId>artifactor.which.has.castor.in.it</artifactId>
<version>1.0</version>
<scope>compile</scope>
<exclusions>
<exclusion> <!-- declare the exclusion here -->
<groupId>org.codehaus.castor</groupId>
<artifactId>castor-xml</artifactId>
<version>1.3.2</version>
</exclusion>
</exclusions>
</dependency>
<dependency> <!-- add proper dependency also, as it is needed -->
<groupId>org.codehaus.castor</groupId>
<artifactId>castor-xml</artifactId>
<version>1.4.1</version>
</dependency>

Paytm CheckSumServiceHelper maven dependency

I am trying to integrate Paytm with my SpringBoot project. But I am not getting a proper jar for the Paytm CheckSumServiceHelper class. I have tried to integrate the MAVEN dependency
<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.paytm/pgplussdk -->
<dependency>
<groupId>com.paytm</groupId>
<artifactId>pgplussdk</artifactId>
<version>1.3.3</version>
</dependency>
but I'm getting Missing artifact com.paytm:pgplussdk:jar:1.3.3 in pom.xml
I have checked multiple links, the package looks like "com.paytm.pg.merchant", but I'm not getting the accurate jar.

Here is the PaytmCheckSum.jar Paytm_JAVA_Checksum .
But the class name is changed from CheckSumServiceHelper to PaytmChecksum
Eg.
PaytmChecksum.generateSignature(parameters, paytmDetails.getMerchantKey());
PaytmChecksum.verifySignature(parameters,paytmDetails.getMerchantKey(),paytmChecksum);

Programmatically retrieve Maven Dependencies

Pls are there any Java libraries that can retrieve Maven dependencies from a POM file? Anything that does not require retrieving out put of a mvn command. Thanks

Well, you should parse the pom.xml with any xml parser of your choice.
Then construct the link to maven central repository by the following algorithm:
1. Each package in group id is translated to a folder:
Example:
<groupId>org.foo.bar</groupId> ==> org/foo/bar
Artifact name is also a folder and append it to the group id:
Example:
<artifactId>some-artifact</artifactId> ==> org/foo/bar/some-artifact
Version also becomes folder:
Example:
<version>1.2.3</version> ==> org/foo/bar/some-artifact/1.2.3
Now construct the jar name as "articatId-version.jar" and append it to the link.
Prepend the repository and you'll get a full-working path.
Here is a real working example:
<dependency>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot</artifactId>
<version>2.2.4.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
Gets translated to:
https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/springframework/boot/spring-boot/2.2.4.RELEASE/spring-boot-2.2.4.RELEASE.jar
As an alternative if you want some library that can work with dependencies don't want to call maven, take a look at Apache Ivy

Thanks.
I used the MavenProject library. Pretty straight forward.
I also used MavenXppReader to get the model that I passed to MavenProject(). The rest was a matter of calling the right methods.

The type com.google.protobuf.GeneratedMessageV3$Builder cannot be resolved. It is indirectly referenced from required .class files

I have been doing my project and all the sudden eclipse started to give this error saying
The type com.google.protobuf.GeneratedMessageV3$Builder cannot be resolved.
It is indirectly referenced from required .class files where we declare the package. I have tried adding com.google.protobuf-2.4.0.jar to build path but it did not work. Please help and here's the screenshot.

com.mysql.cj.x.protobuf.MysqlxSql.StmtExecute is not on the classpath so remove this import

If you are expecting Protobuf generated files to be available, then ensure that you have added the Protobuf library to your project.
Gradle example:
implementation group: 'com.google.protobuf', name: 'protobuf-java', version: googleProtobufVersion
Maven example:
<dependency>
<groupId>com.google.protobuf</groupId>
<artifactId>protobuf-java</artifactId>
<version>${googleProtobufVersion}</version>
</dependency>

Not sure if this helps at such a later date. But i also faced something similar.
I found that I imported this by mistake
import com.mysql.cj.x.protobuf.MysqlxDatatypes.Array;
After removing this line, it works fine.
In your case you need to remove the import
com.mysql.cj.x.protobuf.MysqlxSql.StmtExecute
Replace it with the relevant import.

This is due to the missing dependency of gRPC protobuf. Add this dependency to your pom.xml and this should solve your problem.
<dependency>
<groupId>io.grpc</groupId>
<artifactId>grpc-protobuf</artifactId>
<version>1.16.1</version>
</dependency>
Lastly, do maven -> project update

Why is Maven not resolving all dependencies for commons-configuration?

Summary
When trying XMLConfiguration configuration = new XMLConfiguration("config/config.xml"); with only commons-configuration 1.10 I need to add more depencies (namely commons-collections not newer than 3.2.1) to my maven setup. Why is that so and why doesn't maven simply resolve all needed dependencies?
Details
I am trying to get commons-configuration to work. First I wanted to use the latest version, 2.0-alpha2, which didn't work well at all since I was unable to configure Maven to download the correct ressources - but that is another story.
After I found out that version 1.10 is in fact "one point ten" (not "one point one zero") and thus the latest version of commons-configuration 1 (and covered by the tutorials), I decided to give it a try instead.
For my maven dependencies (integrated in eclipse) I used:
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-configuration</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-configuration</artifactId>
<version>1.10</version>
</dependency>
However, when trying out this example:
package main;
import java.util.Iterator;
import org.apache.commons.configuration.ConfigurationException;
import org.apache.commons.configuration.XMLConfiguration;
public class ConfigurationTest {
public static void main(String... args) {
try {
XMLConfiguration configuration =
new XMLConfiguration("config/config.xml");
Iterator<String> iterator = configuration.getKeys();
while (iterator.hasNext()) {
System.out.println(iterator.next());
}
} catch (ConfigurationException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
with the following config.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>
<configuration>
<property>value</property>
<nestedproperty>
<arrayvalue>0,1,2,3,4</arrayvalue>
<property>anothervalue</property>
</nestedproperty>
</configuration>
I got the error:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/collections/CollectionUtils
at org.apache.commons.configuration.XMLConfiguration.constructHierarchy(XMLConfiguration.java:640)
at org.apache.commons.configuration.XMLConfiguration.initProperties(XMLConfiguration.java:596)
at org.apache.commons.configuration.XMLConfiguration.load(XMLConfiguration.java:1009)
at org.apache.commons.configuration.XMLConfiguration.load(XMLConfiguration.java:972)
at org.apache.commons.configuration.XMLConfiguration$XMLFileConfigurationDelegate.load(XMLConfiguration.java:1647)
at org.apache.commons.configuration.AbstractFileConfiguration.load(AbstractFileConfiguration.java:324)
at org.apache.commons.configuration.AbstractFileConfiguration.load(AbstractFileConfiguration.java:261)
at org.apache.commons.configuration.AbstractFileConfiguration.load(AbstractFileConfiguration.java:238)
at org.apache.commons.configuration.AbstractHierarchicalFileConfiguration.load(AbstractHierarchicalFileConfiguration.java:184)
at org.apache.commons.configuration.AbstractHierarchicalFileConfiguration.<init>(AbstractHierarchicalFileConfiguration.java:95)
at org.apache.commons.configuration.XMLConfiguration.<init>(XMLConfiguration.java:261)
at main.ConfigurationTest.main(ConfigurationTest.java:12)
I first hoped they (not me, of course) just screwed up some maven dependencies and since I wouldn't bother which version to use anyway anymore (I didn't get 2.0 to work, remember?) I decided to go down to version 1.9 by replacing the maven dependency with:
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-configuration</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-configuration</artifactId>
<version>1.9</version>
</dependency>
That solved the problem pretty well, the test case is running:
property
nestedproperty.arrayvalue
nestedproperty.property
But when I tried to implement a similar example to the one referenced in Very simple Apache-commons configuration example throws NoClassDefFoundError and its follow-up question I got the exact same error which is referenced there - but the solution, importing org.apache.commons.beanutils.PropertyUtils is not working as I am missing the beanutils. So basically by downgrading I just switched from the error of missing the collections to missing beanutils.
There is a dependency overview where you can see which dependencies are used when you do what. I was a bit suprised to learn that version 1.10 now used other dependencies (namely the CollectionUtils) than 1.9 did in the constructor call. Since there were dependency problems in 1.10 as well as in 1.9 I just sticked to the newer version.
I found the CollectionUtils located in the following artifact (as I was pointed there by its maven repository):
<dependency>
<groupId>org.apache.commons</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-collections4</artifactId>
<version>4.0</version>
</dependency>
Sadly that one (not obvious to me at first) doesn't define the class CollectionUtils in the package collections, but in the package collections4. It was hinted at this problem on the dependency overview, but they only mentioned possible problems with earlier versions... I appeared to be at a point of not thinking much about it anymore but simply changed the dependency to:
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-collections</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-collections</artifactId>
<version>3.2.1</version>
</dependency>
I got everything to work (more or less, but the Exceptions I get now are not anymore depending on missing class definitions) after using these dependencies:
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-configuration</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-configuration</artifactId>
<version>1.10</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-collections</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-collections</artifactId>
<version>3.2.1</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-beanutils</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-beanutils</artifactId>
<version>1.9.2</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
Why do I have to add the dependencies myself? I thought the whole point in using maven is to avoid having to do such things and in terms of javadocs and source files it does a pretty good job.
By now I am convinced that the dependencies are not included in the hierarchy by design (is that so?), probably to avoid overhead. However is there a way to either simply get all dependencies at once or even better to get all dependencies I need? And why is it designed this way?

If we analyse commons-configuration's POM we see that the commons-collections dependency is optional:
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>commons-collections</groupId>
<artifactId>commons-collections</artifactId>
<version>3.2.1</version>
<optional>true</optional>
</dependency>
...
Furthermore, from the Maven docs:
If a user wants to use functionality related to an optional
dependency, they will have to redeclare that optional dependency in
their own project.

This issue is explained on the Runtime dependencies page of the Commons Configuration website.
Quoting from that page:
A lot of dependencies are declared in the Maven POM. These are all needed during compile time. On runtime however you only need to add the dependencies to your classpath that are required by the parts of the Commons Configuration package you are using. The following table helps you to determine which dependencies you have to include based on the components you intend to use.
The other answers explain why this works from a Maven perspective. This answer is intended to provide a defence, of sorts, to the Commons Configuration folks. They did at least warn you!
In cases where the dependencies are on other Apache Commons components, they've taken the time to test with a variety of versions and have posted information on compatibility at the bottom of that page.

Maven tries to resolve all necessary dependencies for a library you're using in your pom. Well sometimes you have some dependencies which are only necessary for some specific features and you don't want to force the user of your dependency to download it if he doesn't use it. Then you're declaring your dependency as optional. This happened with commons-collections within commons-configuration. See commons-configuration-pom here