[BUG] - Error - ClassNotFoundException: com.microsoft.playwright.impl.driver.Driver on Version 1.48.0

[abdus03]

When i run the same sample playwright code as below
public static void main(String[] args) {

             Playwright playwright = Playwright.create();

                    Browser browser = playwright.chromium().launch();
                    Page page = browser.newPage();
                    page.navigate("http://example.com");
                    // other actions...
                    browser.close();

    }

I am getting below Exception
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/microsoft/playwright/impl/driver/Driver
at com.microsoft.playwright.impl.PlaywrightImpl.createImpl(PlaywrightImpl.java:46)
at com.microsoft.playwright.impl.PlaywrightImpl.create(PlaywrightImpl.java:36)
at com.microsoft.playwright.Playwright.create(Playwright.java:110)
at com.microsoft.playwright.Playwright.create(Playwright.java:114)
at com.axa.testautomation.axasol.testrunner.Main.main(Main.java:73)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.microsoft.playwright.impl.driver.Driver
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:382)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:418)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:355)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:351)
... 5 more

[Skn0tt]

Hi there! This most likely is an application problem on your end. The issue tracker is reserved for bug reports and feature requests. Please see to get help on this:

• The Playwright documentation
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[abdus03]

@Skn0tt My dependency tree doesn't show up the path com/microsoft/playwright/impl/driver/Driver


The above image is of version 1.32.0, the case is same with 1.48.0,

Please let me know if i am missing something here

[Skn0tt]

Hmm, Driver seems to live in a different directory than DriverImpl: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-java/blob/main/driver/src/main/java/com/microsoft/playwright/impl/driver/Driver.java

I'm still pretty sure that something's off in your config. If you believe there's a bug here, please provide me with a minimal reproduction case so I can take a look.