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Java Intro to Java Web Development with Spark Diving into Web Development Meet Spark

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I got an error! SLF4J: Failed to load class "org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder".

I made sure the code was the exact same as the teacher had it. I can't figure out what I did wrong! :(

5 Answers

Alexander Nikiforov
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Check out the Spark Documentation about this problem (Logging section) : http://sparkjava.com/documentation.html#examples

There it says, how to deal with the problem very easily: to add slf4j-simple logging library dependencies.

No need to go back to Spark 2.3 :)

Blake Larson
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Blake Larson
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Thanks, that worked.

Rebekah Smith
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Rebekah Smith
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Thanks, this fix works for spark 2.6 too!

harshahs
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harshahs
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To make it work for version 2.5, you can add the following dependency in build.gradle file.

compile 'ch.qos.logback:logback-classic:1.1.7'
Karrtik Iyer
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Karrtik Iyer
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Yes, it worked for me after adding what harshahs has mentioned, but would want to understand why is it so? Isn't gradle supposed to download any transitive dependencies for spark-core, which would be logback-classic?

Blake Larson
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I added that and still get the same error.

Alexander Nikiforov
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Hi, Blake Larson

Please check out my answer below :

Check out the Spark Documentation about this problem (Logging section) : http://sparkjava.com/documentation.html#examples There it says, how to deal with the problem very easily: to add slf4j-simple logging library dependencies. No need to go back to Spark 2.3 :)

So your build.gradle should look somewhat like this:

group 'com.teamtreehouse.courses'
version '1.0-SNAPSHOT'

apply plugin: 'java'

sourceCompatibility = 1.8

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {

    compile 'com.sparkjava:spark-core:2.5'

    // http://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.slf4j/slf4j-simple
    compile group: 'org.slf4j', name: 'slf4j-simple', version: '1.7.21'

    // optional can be removed
    testCompile group: 'junit', name: 'junit', version: '4.11'
}

Why do I insist on solving the problem this way?

Because it is official Spark Documentation solution. Nothing personal

pyt bot
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After a google search, I figured out that I needed to change compile 'com.sparkjava:spark-core:2.5' to compile 'com.sparkjava:spark-core:2.3'

markmneimneh
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if you run into a binding error

[Thread-0] ERROR spark.embeddedserver.jetty.EmbeddedJettyServer - ignite failed java.net.BindException: Address already in use: bind at sun.nio.ch.Net.bind0(Native Method) at sun.nio.ch.Net.bind(Net.java:433) at sun.nio.ch.Net.bind(Net.java:425) at sun.nio.ch.ServerSocketChannelImpl.bind(ServerSocketChannelImpl.java:223)

fireoff your task manager and check who is using port 4567

bascially, do this is a dos window netstat -anob | findstr "4567"

this will show you the process id

C:\WINDOWS\system32> netstat -anob | findstr "4567" TCP 0.0.0.0:4567 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 4184 TCP [::]:4567 [::]:0 LISTENING 4184

in my case PID is 4184

go to task manager and kill it.

then run your spark example

Chris Jones
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Just FYI for anyone looking at Mark's answer above - you'll need to run the cmd prompt as an administrator. Just right click on the cmd prompt tool and choose "Run as Administrator".

Rares Conea
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Hi, This question is old but if there is someone who still has this problem add before the get method this line: port(<a number that represent the port which you want to use>) Ex: port(8080)