NoSuchMethodError on com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.xml.XmlMapper.coercionConfigDefaults()

Question

I'm parsing a XML string to convert it to a JsonNode in Scala using a XmlMapper from the Jackson library. I code on a Databricks notebook, so compilation is done on a cloud cluster. When compiling my code I got this error java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.xml.XmlMapper.coercionConfigDefaults()Lcom/fasterxml/jackson/databind/cfg/MutableCoercionConfig; with a hundred lines of "at com.databricks. ..."

I maybe forget to import something but for me this is ok (tell me if I'm wrong) :

import ch.qos.logback.classic._
import com.typesafe.scalalogging._
import com.fasterxml.jackson._
import com.fasterxml.jackson.core._
import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.{ObjectMapper, JsonNode}
import com.fasterxml.jackson.dataformat.xml._
import com.fasterxml.jackson.module.scala._
import com.fasterxml.jackson.module.scala.experimental.ScalaObjectMapper
import java.io._
import java.time.Instant
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit
import javax.xml.parsers._
import okhttp3.{Headers, OkHttpClient, Request, Response, RequestBody, FormBody}
import okhttp3.OkHttpClient.Builder._
import org.apache.spark._
import org.xml.sax._

As I'm using Databricks, there's no SBT file for dependencies. Instead I installed the libs I need directly on the cluster. Here are the ones I'm using :

com.squareup.okhttp:okhttp:2.7.5
com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp:4.9.0
com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp:3.14.9
org.scala-lang.modules:scala-swing_3:3.0.0
ch.qos.logback:logback-classic:1.2.6
com.typesafe:scalalogging-slf4j_2.10:1.1.0
cc.spray.json:spray-json_2.9.1:1.0.1
com.fasterxml.jackson.module:jackson-module-scala_3:2.13.0
javax.xml.parsers:jaxp-api:1.4.5
org.xml.sax:2.0.1

The code causing the error is simply (coming from here : https://www.baeldung.com/jackson-convert-xml-json Chapter 5):

val xmlMapper: XmlMapper = new XmlMapper()
val jsonNode: JsonNode = xmlMapper.readTree(responseBody.getBytes())

with responseBody being a String containing a XML document (I previously checked the integrity of the XML). When removing those two lines the code is working fine.

I've read tons of articles or forums but I can't figure out what's causing my issue. Can someone please help me ? Thanks a lot ! :)

Answer 1

upgrading to 2.12.5 version fixed my issue. this issue may also appear when there are multiple versions of jackson jars in project lib directory. you should remove the older versions.