BIRT Java Driver - getDatabase noSuchMethod error

Question

I'm using the mongodb-driver 3.5.0 with Eclipse, and I get no errors in the IDE but when I run my program I get:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: com.mongodb.MongoClient.getDatabase(Ljava/lang/String;)Lcom/mongodb/client/MongoDatabase;

as an error. I've already checked and I'm only using 3.5.0 through a Maven dependency. For some reason everything before to get the MongoClient works fine, it's just getDatabase that isn't working.

EDIT: I did a rough rebuild of the project using a gradle dependency instead of Maven, and that solved the issue. I'll keep looking into it to find the cause.

Example code below:

import org.bson.Document;
import org.bson.types.ObjectId;

import com.mongodb.BasicDBList;
import com.mongodb.BasicDBObject;
import com.mongodb.Block;
import com.mongodb.DBCollection;
import com.mongodb.DBCursor;
import com.mongodb.DBObject;
import com.mongodb.MongoClient;
import com.mongodb.client.FindIterable;
import com.mongodb.client.MongoCollection;
import com.mongodb.client.MongoDatabase;
import static com.mongodb.client.model.Filters.*;
import com.mongodb.client.model.CreateCollectionOptions;
import com.mongodb.client.model.ValidationOptions;


        public static Document reportFind(String id, String destination) {

            ObjectId objectId = ObjectId.get();
            ObjectId provider_id = new ObjectId(id);
            String provider_string = provider_id.toString();
            String db = "loginapp";

            MongoClient mongoClient = new MongoClient("localhost", 27017);
            MongoDatabase database = mongoClient.getDatabase("loginapp");
            MongoCollection<Document> coll =            database.getCollection("reporttemplates");
            System.out.println("Connected to database successfully");

Answer 1

Well according to the mongodb's current documentation the implementation of getDatabse is as:

public MongoDatabase getDatabase(String databaseName)

Parameters: databaseName - the name of the database to retrieve

Returns: a MongoDatabase representing the specified database

Throws: IllegalArgumentException - if databaseName is invalid

This seems completely fine according to your implementation as well. I would hence invest time in investigating the build process for the project of which above is part of.