Hibernate validator dependencies for unit testing

http://hibernate.org/validator/ home page of validation

at javax.validation.Validation$GenericBootstrapImpl.configure(Validation.java:271)
at javax.validation.Validation.buildDefaultValidatorFactory(Validation.java:110)
javax.validation.ValidationException: Unable to create a Configuration, because no Bean Validation provider could be found. Add a provider like Hibernate Validator (RI) to your classpath

I have this in my pom.xml

<dependency>
<groupId>javax.validation</groupId>
<artifactId>validation-api</artifactId>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>





Apparently I should add this implementation

<dependency>
<groupId>org.hibernate.validator</groupId>
<artifactId>hibernate-validator</artifactId>
<version>6.0.7.Final</version>
</dependency>


I do that, then I have :

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/validation/ClockProvider
 at org.hibernate.validator.HibernateValidator.createGenericConfiguration(HibernateValidator.java:33)
 at javax.validation.Validation$GenericBootstrapImpl.configure(Validation.java:276)
 at javax.validation.Validation.buildDefaultValidatorFactory(Validation.java:110)

Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.validation.ClockProvider
 at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
 at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:331)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)

Then I add

<dependency>
<groupId>javax.validation</groupId>
<artifactId>validation-api</artifactId>
<version>1.0.0.GA</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>




and I get

Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.validation.ParameterNameProvider


Here they say you should remove the validation-api : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24652753/java-lang-noclassdeffounderror-javax-validation-parameternameprovider


I do this:


<dependency>
<groupId>javax.validation</groupId>
<artifactId>validation-api</artifactId>
<version>2.0.1.Final</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>


now I get:

Caused by: javax.validation.ValidationException: HV000183: Unable to initialize 'javax.el.ExpressionFactory'. Check that you have the EL dependencies on the classpath, or use ParameterMessageInterpolator instead
 at org.hibernate.validator.messageinterpolation.ResourceBundleMessageInterpolator.buildExpressionFactory(ResourceBundleMessageInterpolator.java:123)
 at org.hibernate.validator.messageinterpolation.ResourceBundleMessageInterpolator.(ResourceBundleMessageInterpolator.java:47)
 at org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.ConfigurationImpl.getDefaultMessageInterpolator(ConfigurationImpl.java:461)
 at org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.ConfigurationImpl.getDefaultMessageInterpolatorConfiguredWithClassLoader(ConfigurationImpl.java:637)
 at org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.ConfigurationImpl.getMessageInterpolator(ConfigurationImpl.java:388)
 at org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.ValidatorFactoryImpl.(ValidatorFactoryImpl.java:179)
 at org.hibernate.validator.HibernateValidator.buildValidatorFactory(HibernateValidator.java:38)
 at org.hibernate.validator.internal.engine.ConfigurationImpl.buildValidatorFactory(ConfigurationImpl.java:355)
 at javax.validation.Validation.buildDefaultValidatorFactory(Validation.java:103)

So I add ( https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24386771/javax-validation-validationexception-hv000183-unable-to-load-javax-el-express )



<dependency>
<groupId>javax.el</groupId>
<artifactId>javax.el-api</artifactId>
<version>2.2.4</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.glassfish.web</groupId>
<artifactId>javax.el</artifactId>
<version>2.2.4</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>



and I get

java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.el.ELManager


then I finally use

<dependency>
<groupId>javax.el</groupId>
<artifactId>javax.el-api</artifactId>
<version>3.0.0</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>


and it works!

once more, all you need is:

  <dependency>
    <groupId>javax.validation</groupId>
    <artifactId>validation-api</artifactId>
    <scope>provided</scope>
  </dependency>

  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.hibernate.validator</groupId>
    <artifactId>hibernate-validator</artifactId>
    <version>6.0.7.Final</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
  </dependency>

  <dependency>
    <groupId>javax.validation</groupId>
    <artifactId>validation-api</artifactId>
    <version>2.0.1.Final</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
  </dependency>

<dependency>
  <groupId>javax.el</groupId>
  <artifactId>javax.el-api</artifactId>
  <version>3.0.0</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.glassfish.web</groupId>
    <artifactId>javax.el</artifactId>
    <version>2.2.4</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
  </dependency>