Elasticsearch TransportClient NetworkPlugin NoClassDefFoundError

Question

I am looking forward to integrate Elasticsearch in a Spring Boot Web Application. Here is my configuration that creates my Transport Client:

@Configuration
public class ElasticsearchConfig {

private TransportClient client;

@Bean
public TransportClient client() throws UnknownHostException{

    Settings settings = Settings.builder()
            .put("client.transport.nodes_sampler_interval", "5s")
            .put("client.transport.sniff", false)
            .put("transport.tcp.compress", true)
            .put("cluster.name", "clusterName")
            .put("xpack.security.transport.ssl.enabled", true)
            .build();

    client = new PreBuiltTransportClient(settings);

    client.addTransportAddress(new InetSocketTransportAddress(InetAddress.getByName("localhost"), 9300));

    return client;
}

When I start the Project I get following error and I don't know why:

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.elasticsearch.plugins.NetworkPlugin

Did I forgot to add a dependency?

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-data-elasticsearch</artifactId>
</dependency>
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.elasticsearch.client</groupId>
    <artifactId>transport</artifactId>
    <version>5.1.1</version>
</dependency>

Hope you can help me

Answer 1

I just stumbled over the same problem. Seems that the Elasticsearch docs aren't complete. In addition to the transport client dependency, you need to also add the elasticsearch dependency:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.elasticsearch</groupId>
    <artifactId>elasticsearch</artifactId>
    <version>5.1.1</version>
</dependency>

You'll also need the log4j dependency, but that is clearly stated in the Elasticsearch docs.

Answer 2

for me it looks like elastic search has a wrong dependency version in the pom

  <properties>
    <log4j.version>2.6.2</log4j.version>
</properties>

<dependencies>


  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.elasticsearch</groupId>
    <artifactId>elasticsearch</artifactId>
    <version>5.1.1</version>

  </dependency>

  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.elasticsearch.client</groupId>
    <artifactId>transport</artifactId>
    <version>5.1.1</version>

    <exclusions>
      <exclusion>
        <artifactId>elasticsearch</artifactId>            
        <groupId>org.elasticsearch</groupId></exclusion>
    </exclusions>
  </dependency>      
   <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
        <artifactId>log4j-api</artifactId>
        <version>${log4j.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
        <artifactId>log4j-core</artifactId>
        <version>${log4j.version}</version>
    </dependency>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>org.apache.logging.log4j</groupId>
        <artifactId>log4j-web</artifactId>
        <version>${log4j.version}</version>
    </dependency>

try to replace the version with 5.1.1 well it looks like it also needs log4j ?!

best regards, noirabys