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Java Intro to Java Web Development with Spark Diving into Web Development Sending Responses

chaim Wilmowsky
chaim Wilmowsky
695 Points
Posted by chaim Wilmowsky
chaim Wilmowsky
695 Points

HandlebarsTemplateEngine() not recognized by intellij. whats going on?

i get a red line saying it dosnet know what HandlebarsTemplateEngine() is. i did install it.

5 Answers

Nicholas Pretorius
Nicholas Pretorius
18,683 Points
Nicholas Pretorius
Nicholas Pretorius
18,683 Points

Hi,

I had a similar problem - I did the following (Mac running IntelliJ IDEA Community 2017.1):

  1. Refreshed Gradle
  2. Restarted IntelliJ
  3. Restarted my Mac
  4. Deleted the get() declaration with the error and rewrote it from scratch

While I don't think steps 2 & 3 are necessary, deleting the original offending line and rewriting it seemed to do the trick.

Hope this helps

Jeremiah Shore
Jeremiah Shore
31,168 Points
Jeremiah Shore
Jeremiah Shore
31,168 Points

Running Windows7, IntelliJ IDEA Community 2017.1... having a similar issue; IntelliJ will not detect spark for auto-import. I've done this course before with no issues when previously using a 2015 version, so I'm not sure what's up this time. I'm running the course as a refresher to get back into the JWD Techdegree soon (hopefully).

I tried rebuilding, refreshing Gradle, etc. Also found out that sometime when I upgraded to 2017 from 2015 that my Maven plugin was disabled; came across that as part of this troubleshooting effort. I fixed that and repeated the earlier steps with no change. What's weird is I can manually type out the import statements; the libraries are synced with Gradle and are part of the project, it just won't auto-import.

Any thoughts? Craig Dennis

Carmine Sarno
Carmine Sarno
19,660 Points
Carmine Sarno
Carmine Sarno
19,660 Points

The shorthand Gradle notation wasn't working for me either (IntelliJ 2017). Try commenting out the shorthand Handlebars line in build.gradle and replacing it with: compile group: 'com.sparkjava', name: 'spark-template-handlebars', version: '2.5.5'

Refresh Gradle and it should work.

Craig Dennis
STAFF
Craig Dennis
Treehouse Teacher
Craig Dennis
Craig Dennis
Treehouse Teacher

Did you refresh Gradle afterwards?

Awais Jamil
Awais Jamil
7,539 Points
Awais Jamil
Awais Jamil
7,539 Points

i have the error :

Could not find method compile() for arguments [com.sparkjava:spark-template-handlebars;2.3] on object of type org.gradle.api.internal............

please help

Rishi Gupta
PLUS
Rishi Gupta
Courses Plus Student 2,466 Points
Rishi Gupta
Rishi Gupta
Courses Plus Student 2,466 Points

For some reason I had to do 

import spark.template.handlebars.HandlebarsTemplateEngine;

Refreshing Gradle, restarting IntelliJ, etc didn't seem to work. This is using Intellij 2017 also.

Kevin Fernandez-Gonzalez
Kevin Fernandez-Gonzalez
16,790 Points
Kevin Fernandez-Gonzalez
Kevin Fernandez-Gonzalez
16,790 Points

I think this course should be updated, there is to many issues that is take the learning experience away