Thank you Sebastian for your response. I followed the steps as per your suggestion and added the required jars under runtime in plugin.xml. My code is at - https://github.com/ sujen1412/nutch/blob/kafka/src/plugin/publish-kafka/plugin.xml.
Now after compiling and running ./bin/crawl in local mode, the fetch job fails due to Caused by: org.apache.kafka.common.config.ConfigException: Invalid value org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.internals.DefaultPartitioner for configuration partitioner.class: Class org.apache.kafka.clients. producer.internals.DefaultPartitioner could not be found. Am I missing something ? To find out the cause for this, I copied the jars from the runtime/local/plugin/<some-plugin>/*.jar to the runtime/local/lib directory, the code seems to work perfectly fine, which may imply that the jars listed under the runtime tag in plugin.xml are not getting added to classpath during runtime. I looked at the code here https://github.com/apache/nutch/blob/master/src/ bin/nutch#L155-L164 and cannot understand the use of lines 161-163, if the plugins folder is found add the home directory to the classpath ? Looking into to various ways to set a classpath ( https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/tools/windows/classpath.html#A1100762), it says that subdirectories are not searched recursively. Thanks once again for your help. On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 12:10 AM, Sebastian Nagel < wastl.na...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi Sujen, > > are the jars also listed in the plugin.xml? > > That's required. The plugin-specific ivy.xml is only used at compile time > to fetch the library and its dependencies and get the plugin compiled. > > At runtime all required libs have to be listed in the plugin.xml, e.g., > https://github.com/apache/nutch/blob/master/src/plugin/ > parse-tika/plugin.xml > > This double work is not ideal and a frequent cause for errors but that's > how it works right now. > > Cheers, > Sebastian > > > On 09/12/2016 11:56 PM, Sujen Shah wrote: > > Hi Devs, > > > > I am facing issues in loading jars required for plugins while running > Nutch in local mode. > > > > I am doing the following : > > 1. add a dependency in <some-plugin>/ivy.xml > > 2. ant clean runtime > > > > Now, when I print the classpath before running, the /bin/nutch script > does not seem to be adding > > those jars on to the classpath and throws runtime exceptions. To > mitigate this I added the > > dependency in the root ivy.xml. > > > > I don't know if I am missing something here or anyone else has faced the > same issue and found a > > solution. > > For example - https://github.com/apache/nutch/tree/master/src/plugin/ > publish-rabbitmq, the > > dependency for amqp-client had to be added in the root ivy.xml as well > for it to not throw runtime > > exceptions (ex - ClassNotFound) > > > > I have a created a patch which modifies the ./bin/nutch script to load > the plugin jars onto the > > classpath which is attached below. This patch eliminates the need to > modify the root ivy.xml for > > plugin specific dependencies. > > > > I wanted to ask the devs first if there was already a solution before > filing a JIRA issue. If not, > > I'll submit it through JIRA. > > > > Thank you for your help. > > > > > > Regards, > > Sujen Shah > >