I’m facing a frustrating problem while trying to work with the Google Drive API in my Java code. Every time I attempt to execute the program, this error pops up:
java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: com.google.api.client.googleapis.services.json.AbstractGoogleJsonClient
This issue occurs in both servlet setups and standard Java SE applications. I’ve been trying to resolve this for a while, but I’m at a loss. Has anyone experienced this before? I’m curious about what might be causing this method to be unrecognized. Could it be due to conflicts with dependencies or some libraries missing from my classpath?
yeah, i’ve hit this before. usually it’s mixed jar versions causing trouble. clean your build folder completely and rebuild from scratch. also check you’re not pulling in both old and new google client libs - maven sometimes grabs weird transitive dependencies that break things.
Had this exact error 6 months ago during a project migration. Turned out to be mismatched Google API client library versions in my classpath. The AbstractGoogleJsonClient class signature changed between versions, and old JAR files were conflicting with newer ones. Fixed it by wiping all Google dependencies and reinstalling with consistent versions. Check your Maven/Gradle dependencies - transitive dependencies might be pulling different versions of the same library. I had to explicitly exclude some conflicting transitive deps too. This error usually means the JVM found the class but not the method signature it expected, which screams version mismatch.