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NoSuchMethodError when using HistoryService

amy11 — Sun, 03 Apr 2016 23:07:54 GMT

Hi everybody,working with Activiti 5.19.0.2 OSX, Tomcat 8.0.32 - I am trying to retrieve previous task informations using "HistoryService" resp. "HistoricTaskInstance" inside a TaskListener. My Unit test works fine but as soon as I run the process an interesting error msg. occurs which I apparently

Re: NoSuchMethodError when using HistoryService

martin_grofcik — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 08:24:08 GMT

Hi,

You have to search for HistoricTaskInstanceQuery class in your classpath to check which class is loaded by class loader.

Regards
Martin

Re: NoSuchMethodError when using HistoryService

amy11 — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 13:55:14 GMT

Hi Martin,
thank you for your reply.
While searching for the class and gaining infos concerning the classpath (do i have to explicitly set the classpath in .bash_profile??) I realized my projects maven dependencies showed an older version of the activiti engine. Updating that one and some more other things I also stumbled across that other post: https://forums.activiti.org/content/error-createhistorictaskinstancequery - I dropped all tables as well…

And now it works like a charm