My previous post discussed about creating an Alerts system in Java using an Amazon SQS backend.
Everything worked great on my machine (Except for some non-determinism in the behavior of SQS). However a colleague of mine decided to use the same bit of code and her machine would throw up this error:
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Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: INSTANCE
at com.amazonaws.http.conn.SdkConnectionKeepAliveStrategy.getKeepAliveDuration(SdkConnectionKeepAliveStrategy.java:48)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultRequestDirector.execute(DefaultRequestDirector.java:533)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:906)
at org.apache.http.impl.client.AbstractHttpClient.execute(AbstractHttpClient.java:805)
at com.amazonaws.http.AmazonHttpClient.executeOneRequest(AmazonHttpClient.java:819)
at com.amazonaws.http.AmazonHttpClient.executeHelper(AmazonHttpClient.java:574)
at com.amazonaws.http.AmazonHttpClient.doExecute(AmazonHttpClient.java:362)
at com.amazonaws.http.AmazonHttpClient.executeWithTimer(AmazonHttpClient.java:328)
at com.amazonaws.http.AmazonHttpClient.execute(AmazonHttpClient.java:307)
at com.amazonaws.services.sqs.AmazonSQSClient.invoke(AmazonSQSClient.java:2419)
at com.amazonaws.services.sqs.AmazonSQSClient.listQueues(AmazonSQSClient.java:1179)
at com.amazonaws.services.sqs.AmazonSQSClient.listQueues(AmazonSQSClient.java:2131)
...
It was happening in a bit of code that I had no control over. I didn’t even know exactly what this issue was. I searched for it and there wasn’t anything that matched SQS with this exception.
I finally realized that this was a problem with the version of Apache HTTP Client that was on my colleague’s machine. She had a dependency on v4.2 of the Apache HTTP Client in her code, while the Amazon AWS SDK used v4.3.6, which I found using a mvn dependency:tree command:
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$ mvn dependency:tree
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO]
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Building CommonAlerts 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO]
[INFO] --- maven-dependency-plugin:2.8:tree (default-cli) @ common-alerts ---
[INFO] com.caffinc:common-alerts:jar:1.0.0-SNAPSHOT
[INFO] +- com.amazonaws:aws-java-sdk:jar:1.10.37:compile
[INFO] | +- com.amazonaws:aws-java-sdk-support:jar:1.10.37:compile
...
[INFO] | +- com.amazonaws:aws-java-sdk-api-gateway:jar:1.10.37:compile
[INFO] | \- com.amazonaws:aws-java-sdk-core:jar:1.10.37:compile
[INFO] | +- commons-logging:commons-logging:jar:1.1.3:compile
[INFO] | +- org.apache.httpcomponents:httpclient:jar:4.3.6:compile
[INFO] | | +- org.apache.httpcomponents:httpcore:jar:4.3.3:compile
[INFO] | | \- commons-codec:commons-codec:jar:1.6:compile
...
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 4.367 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2015-12-01T17:06:41+05:30
[INFO] Final Memory: 13M/244M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
We updated her code to use v4.3.6 instead and everything worked just fine! Hope this helps someone else in need!