Grails Rendering Plugin gives java.lang.ClassNotFoundException when deployed

Question

I've followed this tutorial successfully and works good on localhost. It's about using the using the grails rendering plugin. It works good and all on LOCALHOST, but when I deploy the app, or even just run grails run-war, the rendering plugin no longer works. It's giving some weird error. :(

I'm using grails 2.0.0 with rendering plugin 0.4.3 and this is what my BuildConfig.groovy contains:

plugins {
        runtime ":hibernate:$grailsVersion"
        runtime ":jquery:1.7.1"
        runtime ":resources:1.1.5"
        compile ":rendering:0.4.3"

        build ":tomcat:$grailsVersion"
    }

The error is this:

2012-09-27 17:08:47,714 [http-8643-1] ERROR errors.GrailsExceptionResolver  - ClassNotFoundException occurred when processing request: [GET] /profile/renderFormPDF/1
org.springframework.mock.web.MockHttpServletRequest. Stacktrace follows:
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.mock.web.MockHttpServletRequest
    at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredMethods(Class.java:2427)
    at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredMethods(Class.java:1791)
    at org.codehaus.groovy.util.LazyReference.getLocked(LazyReference.java:46)
    at org.codehaus.groovy.util.LazyReference.get(LazyReference.java:33)
    at grails.plugin.rendering.document.RenderEnvironment.init(RenderEnvironment.groovy:33)
    at grails.plugin.rendering.document.RenderEnvironment.with(RenderEnvironment.groovy:69)
    at grails.plugin.rendering.document.RenderEnvironment.with(RenderEnvironment.groovy:61)
    at grails.plugin.rendering.document.XhtmlDocumentService.generateXhtml(XhtmlDocumentService.groovy:68)
    at grails.plugin.rendering.document.XhtmlDocumentService.createDocument(XhtmlDocumentService.groovy:38)
    at grails.plugin.rendering.RenderingService.render(RenderingService.groovy:34)
    at grails.plugin.rendering.RenderingService.render(RenderingService.groovy:33)
    at grails.plugin.rendering.RenderingService.render(RenderingService.groovy:63)
    at com.icodeya.ProfileController.renderFormPDF(ProfileController.groovy:108)
    at net.stax.appserver.webapp.RequestMonitorValve.invoke(RequestMonitorValve.java:35)
    at net.stax.appserver.admin.StaxApplicationQueryValve.invoke(StaxApplicationQueryValve.java:49)
    at net.stax.appserver.webapp.RequestSetupValve.invoke(RequestSetupValve.java:31)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)

Answer 1

That's in the spring-test jar which is in the dev environment but isn't included in the WAR file. Add

runtime 'org.springframework:spring-test:3.1.0.RELEASE'

to the dependencies section of BuildConfig.groovy.