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Cucumber Dependency Issue - couldn't load plugin class


I am new in cucumber extendable code I need to help. I am using java 8 and maven and want to generate cucumber extendable report. But Every time I am getting below error:

cucumber.runtime.CucumberException: Couldn't load plugin class: com.cucumber.listener.ExtentCucumberFormatter. It does not implement cucumber.api.Plugin

The Pom.xml file is:

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

    <groupId>CucumberFramwork</groupId>
    <artifactId>ExtendReport</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <packaging>jar</packaging>

    <name>ExtendReport</name>
    <url>http://maven.apache.org</url>

    <properties>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
    </properties>

    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>junit</groupId>
            <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
            <version>4.11</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.vimalselvam</groupId>
            <artifactId>cucumber-extentsreport</artifactId>
            <version>3.0.2</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.aventstack</groupId>
            <artifactId>extentreports</artifactId>
            <version>3.1.1</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.aventstack</groupId>
            <artifactId>extentreports-cucumber4-adapter</artifactId>
            <version>1.0.7</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>info.cukes</groupId>
            <artifactId>cucumber-java</artifactId>
            <version>1.2.5</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>info.cukes</groupId>
            <artifactId>cucumber-jvm</artifactId>
            <version>1.2.5</version>
            <type>pom</type>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>info.cukes</groupId>
            <artifactId>cucumber-junit</artifactId>
            <version>1.2.5</version>
        </dependency>

    </dependencies>

    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>3.5.1</version>
                <configuration>
                    <source>1.8</source>
                    <target>1.8</target>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>

</project>

Runner Class Code:

package runners;

import java.io.File;

import org.junit.AfterClass;
import org.junit.runner.RunWith;

import com.cucumber.listener.Reporter;

import cucumber.api.CucumberOptions;
import cucumber.api.junit.Cucumber;

@RunWith(Cucumber.class)
@CucumberOptions(features = "src/test/resources/functionalTests", 
                 glue = { "stepDefinitions" },
                 plugin = {
        "com.cucumber.listener.ExtentCucumberFormatter:target/cucumber-reports/report.html" }, 
                 monochrome = true)
public class TestRunner {
    @AfterClass
    public static void writeExtentReport() {
        try {

                    Reporter.loadXMLConfig(new File("C:\\Software\\WprkSpace\\ExtendReport\\Configs\\extent-config.xml"));
        }
     catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
        }
        //Reporter.loadXMLConfig("/ExtendReport/Configs/extent-config.xml");
    }
}

I get this error:

cucumber.runtime.CucumberException: Couldn't load plugin class: com.cucumber.listener.ExtentCucumberFormatter. It does not implement cucumber.api.Plugin
    at cucumber.runtime.formatter.PluginFactory.loadClass(PluginFactory.java:178)
    at cucumber.runtime.formatter.PluginFactory.pluginClass(PluginFactory.java:165)
    at cucumber.runtime.formatter.PluginFactory.getPluginClass(PluginFactory.java:222)
    at cucumber.runtime.formatter.PluginFactory.isStepDefinitionReporterName(PluginFactory.java:205)
    at cucumber.runtime.RuntimeOptions$ParsedPluginData.addPluginName(RuntimeOptions.java:357)
    at cucumber.runtime.RuntimeOptions.parse(RuntimeOptions.java:159)
    at cucumber.runtime.RuntimeOptions.<init>(RuntimeOptions.java:90)
    at cucumber.runtime.RuntimeOptions.<init>(RuntimeOptions.java:85)
    at cucumber.runtime.RuntimeOptionsFactory.create(RuntimeOptionsFactory.java:23)
    at cucumber.api.junit.Cucumber.<init>(Cucumber.java:56)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
    at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:488)
    at org.junit.internal.builders.AnnotatedBuilder.buildRunner(AnnotatedBuilder.java:29)
    at org.junit.internal.builders.AnnotatedBuilder.runnerForClass(AnnotatedBuilder.java:21)
    at org.junit.runners.model.RunnerBuilder.safeRunnerForClass(RunnerBuilder.java:59)

Solution

  • Try to use this 2 dependencies with the same versions below:

    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.vimalselvam</groupId>
        <artifactId>cucumber-extentsreport</artifactId>
        <version>3.0.2</version>
       </dependency>
    
        <dependency>
        <groupId>com.aventstack</groupId>
        <artifactId>extentreports</artifactId>
        <version>3.1.2</version>
       </dependency>
    

    More information here:

    extent-report-plugin-for-cucumber