java: error reading C:\Users\SP00780555\.m2\repository\com\google\errorprone error executing testcases using Selenium in IntelliJ

Question

Im trying to run simple selenium script in IntelliJ. This is the code I used

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;

public class Demo {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C:\\Users\\SP00780555\\Downloads\\chromedriver_win32\\chromedriver.exe");
        WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
        driver.get("http://www.google.com");
    }
}

But when I'm trying to run it, it's showing this error:

java: error reading C:\Users\SP00780555\.m2\repository\com\google\errorprone\error_prone_annotations\2.1.3\error_prone_annotations-2.1.3.jar; zip file is empty

Answer 1

This error message...

java: error reading C:\Users\SP00780555\.m2\repository\com\google\errorprone\error_prone_annotations\2.1.3\error_prone_annotations-2.1.3.jar; zip file is empty

...implies that your program is unable to read the local Maven repository i.e. some of the contents from .m2 directory as the repository possibly got corrupted.

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Solution

To address this issue you can adopt any of the following two approaches:

1. Run: Maven clean, Maven install and Maven test
2. Delete the .m2 directory and Run: mvn clean, mvn install and mvn test (the libraries within the maven repositories will downloaded afresh)

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References

You can find a relevant detailed discussion in Getting Selenium-WebDriver Example to work