OSX 10.13.6: Error: Could not find or load main class about elasticsearch-maven-plugin HOT 3 CLOSED

It appears that the issue you are describing is in the bin/elasticsearch shell script. The plugin starts a new process using the arguments listed on the last INFO line in your output (ie. the last [INFO] Elasticsearch[0]: Executing command ...). From here on the ES startup script takes over and builds the java command to execute.

Off the top, I would suggest one of the following:

• download the ES distribution, unzip and start ES; or simply go to ${your_mvn_proj}/target/elasticsearch0 (this is where the ES distro gets downloaded and unpacked by the plugin) and run $ bin/elasticsearch; I would expect this to fail as well
• upgrade the ES version in the plugin config; I just checked the bin/elasticsearch in 5.0.0 and it uses this to execute java (note the double quotes around the cp): $ exec "$JAVA" $ES_JAVA_OPTS -Des.path.home="$ES_HOME" -cp "$ES_CLASSPATH" org.elasticsearch.bootstrap.Elasticsearch "$@"

You didn't say what the plugin config is. I am interested in the plugin version and the ES version.

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Here's the full plugin config

          <plugin>
            <groupId>com.github.alexcojocaru</groupId>
            <artifactId>elasticsearch-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>${maven.plugin.elasticsearch.version}</version>
            <configuration>
              <clusterName>esDevCluster</clusterName>
              <httpPort>${es.httpPort}</httpPort>
              <transportPort>${es.tcpPort}</transportPort>
              <version>${maven.plugin.elasticsearch.configuration.version}</version>
              <keepExistingData>true</keepExistingData>
              <timeout>60</timeout>
              <skip>${es.skip.start}</skip>
              <pathConf>elasticsearch/conf</pathConf>
              <logLevel>DEBUG</logLevel>
            </configuration>
            <executions>
              <execution>
                <id>start-elasticsearch</id>
                <phase>validate</phase>
                <goals>
                  <goal>runforked</goal>
                </goals>
              </execution>
              <execution>
                <id>stop-elasticsearch</id>
                <phase>post-integration-test</phase>
                <goals>
                  <goal>stop</goal>
                </goals>
              </execution>
            </executions>
          </plugin>

where

<maven.plugin.elasticsearch.version>6.4</maven.plugin.elasticsearch.version>
<maven.plugin.elasticsearch.configuration.version>5.6.8</maven.plugin.elasticsearch.configuration.version>

As you mentioned in your comment, running bin/elastic throws the exact same error.

I tried editing the bin/elasticsearch script to add quotes to the -cp parameter, but when I run the project with the respective mvn command, the target/elasticsearch0/bin/elasticsearch script is re-generated by the mvn process, so any changes I do are overwritten.

I might have found a workaround for the issue though.

If I set the ES_JVM_OPTIONS env variable to -cp "./target/elasticsearch0/lib/*" in my IDE's (IntelliJ) run configuration (or in the terminal before executing the run command), the project runs nicely, but took quite some time to figure that out.

Perhaps worth adding that to the README file for other OSX users?

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Thanks for the additional details and for describing the workaround. I will add a note about this to the README.

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