rosjava build error in kinetic: Could not find org.ros.rosjava_messages:tf:1.11.9

Question

I am trying to update from ROS Indigo (and Ubuntu 14) to ROS Kinetic (and Ubuntu 16) While my code builds under Indigo, when I try to do a catkin_make under Kinetic, I always get the same build failure when trying to generate rosjava bindings for my .msg and .srv files. The rest of the project builds fine - compiling C++ code, generating Python bindings for the .msg & .srv files, etc.

The build failure:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• What went wrong: Could not resolve all dependencies for configuration ':runtime'.

Could not find org.ros.rosjava_messages:tf:1.11.9. Searched in the following locations: file:/home/grabit/svn/trunk/ros_linux/catkin_ws/devel/share/maven/org/ros/rosjava_messages/tf/1.11.9/tf-1.11.9.pom file:/home/grabit/svn/trunk/ros_linux/catkin_ws/devel/share/maven/org/ros/rosjava_messages/tf/1.11.9/tf-1.11.9.jar file:/opt/ros/kinetic/share/maven/org/ros/rosjava_messages/tf/1.11.9/tf-1.11.9.pom file:/opt/ros/kinetic/share/maven/org/ros/rosjava_messages/tf/1.11.9/tf-1.11.9.jar https://github.com/rosjava/rosjava_mvn_repo/raw/master/org/ros/rosjava_messages/tf/1.11.9/tf-1.11.9.pom https://github.com/rosjava/rosjava_mvn_repo/raw/master/org/ros/rosjava_messages/tf/1.11.9/tf-1.11.9.jar file:/home/grabit/.m2/repository/org/ros/rosjava_messages/tf/1.11.9/tf-1.11.9.pom file:/home/grabit/.m2/repository/org/ros/rosjava_messages/tf/1.11.9/tf-1.11.9.jar http://repository.springsource.com/maven/bundles/release/org/ros/rosjava_messages/tf/1.11.9/tf-1.11.9.pom http://repository.springsource.com/maven/bundles/release/org/ros/rosjava_messages/tf/1.11.9/tf-1.11.9.jar http://repository.springsource.com/maven/bundles/external/org/ros/rosjava_messages/tf/1.11.9/tf-1.11.9.pom http://repository.springsource.com/maven/bundles/external/org/ros/rosjava_messages/tf/1.11.9/tf-1.11.9.jar https://jcenter.bintray.com/org/ros/rosjava_messages/tf/1.11.9/tf-1.11.9.pom [ 65%] Generating EusLisp code from stackit_srvs/ConveyorPosition.srv https://jcenter.bintray.com/org/ros/rosjava_messages/tf/1.11.9/tf-1.11.9.jar Required by: org.ros.rosjava_messages:stackit_srvs:0.0.0 Could not find org.ros.rosjava_messages:stackit_msgs:0.0.0. Searched in the following locations: file:/home/grabit/svn/trunk/ros_linux/catkin_ws/devel/share/maven/org/ros/rosjava_messages/stackit_msgs/0.0.0/stackit_msgs-0.0.0.pom file:/home/grabit/svn/trunk/ros_linux/catkin_ws/devel/share/maven/org/ros/rosjava_messages/stackit_msgs/0.0.0/stackit_msgs-0.0.0.jar file:/opt/ros/kinetic/share/maven/org/ros/rosjava_messages/stackit_msgs/0.0.0/stackit_msgs-0.0.0.pom file:/opt/ros/kinetic/share/maven/org/ros/rosjava_messages/stackit_msgs/0.0.0/stackit_msgs-0.0.0.jar https://github.com/rosjava/rosjava_mvn_repo/raw/master/org/ros/rosjava_messages/stackit_msgs/0.0.0/stackit_msgs-0.0.0.pom https://github.com/rosjava/rosjava_mvn_repo/raw/master/org/ros/rosjava_messages/stackit_msgs/0.0.0/stackit_msgs-0.0.0.jar file:/home/grabit/.m2/repository/org/ros/rosjava_messages/stackit_msgs/0.0.0/stackit_msgs-0.0.0.pom file:/home/grabit/.m2/repository/org/ros/rosjava_messages/stackit_msgs/0.0.0/stackit_msgs-0.0.0.jar http://repository.springsource.com/maven/bundles/release/org/ros/rosjava_messages/stackit_msgs/0.0.0/stackit_msgs-0.0.0.pom http://repository.springsource.com/maven/bundles/release/org/ros/rosjava_messages/stackit_msgs/0.0.0/stackit_msgs-0.0.0.jar http://repository.springsource.com/maven/bundles/external/org/ros/rosjava_messages/stackit_msgs/0.0.0/stackit_msgs-0.0.0.pom http://repository.springsource.com/maven/bundles/external/org/ros/rosjava_messages/stackit_msgs/0.0.0/stackit_msgs-0.0.0.jar https://jcenter.bintray.com/org/ros/rosjava_messages/stackit_msgs/0.0.0/stackit_msgs-0.0.0.pom https://jcenter.bintray.com/org/ros/rosjava_messages/stackit_msgs/0.0.0/stackit_msgs-0.0.0.jar Required by: org.ros.rosjava_messages:stackit_srvs:0.0.0

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Originally posted by rbiro on ROS Answers with karma: 1 on 2017-11-28

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Original comments

Comment by jubeira on 2017-11-29:
It seems that the artifact for that version is missing in rosjava_mvn_repo:https://github.com/rosjava/rosjava_mvn_repo/tree/master/org/ros/rosjava_messages/tf.

I will add it soon.

Answer 1

@rbiro this is a known issue in genjava.

When you create a new custom service/ message, genjava will add a dependency to the messages you have installed in your system (in this case, for tf, the message version is 1.11.9).

The problem is that the latest version of the messages is not always available in rosjava_mvn_repo. I will add it when I can (the problem is that I will also need to update the version of it's dependencies, so it might take a while).

In the meantime, maybe you can try going to /home/grabit/svn/trunk/ros_linux/catkin_ws/devel/share/maven/org/ros/rosjava_messages/stackit_msgs/0.0.0/stackit_msgs-0.0.0.pom , and edit the dependency to tf:1.11.8 manually. See https://github.com/rosjava/rosjava_mvn_repo/issues/46 for reference.

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Originally posted by jubeira with karma: 1054 on 2017-12-04

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Original comments

Comment by rosmax on 2020-09-18:
Hi @jubeira, I have the same problem now with:

org.ros.rosjava_messages:roscpp:1.12.16

org.ros.rosjava_messages:topic_tools:1.12.16

org.ros.rosjava_messages:actionlib:1.11.16

They don't seem to be available in the rosjava_mvn_repo. Unfortunately, I don't have any devel/share/maven directory in my workspace so I cannot modify the dependencies on my own. Do you have any ideas? Regards