wiremock: WireMock Servlet API is not compatible with Spring Boot 2

The Servlet API packaged with WireMock standalone is version 3.x whereas Tomcat container used by Spring Boot requires version 4.x. This causes an unresolvable conflict at runtime. Note that this problem cannot be solved by simply manipulating transitive dependencies because the Servlet API is part of the WireMock jar, not a dependency, and the same applies for Tomcat.

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest.getHttpServletMapping()Ljavax/servlet/http/HttpServletMapping;

I found this thread which discusses the same problem.

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Ha, thanks for the quick answer @tomakehurst. I almost said the new wiremock-jre8 doesn’t work because I was getting the same errors. But I noticed that this time I can see the artifact’s dependencies so I tried to force the Servlet version via compile 'javax.servlet:javax.servlet-api:4.0.1' in Gradle. And guess what? It worked 😃 All the tests are green now.

Thank you very much, WireMock is an amazing tool!

bob983 on Jan 31, 2019

Any progress here? There seems to be an interaction with the jdk used - with jdk8 we can build/run our tests - with jdk11 its the good old ‘java.lang.NoSuchMethodError’ from above. (Using Spring-cloud-contract-wiremock 2.2.1.

Seems like jetty is not in a hurry of supporting Servlet Api 4 … jetty-issue-4578

u3r on Apr 16, 2020

I shipped a new version yesterday that splits out Java 7 and Java 8+ JARs.

The Java 8+ JAR has the latest Jetty version (and therefore servlet API) so this might already be fixed.

Suggest you try the wiremock-jre8 artifact in your dependencies and see how you get on.

tomakehurst on Jan 31, 2019