Unable to find ChromeDriver class with Selenium-CodePudding

I have my chromedriver executable file in my MacOS Downloads directory. Here's my code when I'm setting up for using Selenium

    import java.lang.*;
    import java.io.*;
    import java.util.*;
    import org.openqa.selenium.By;
    import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
    import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
    
    
    public class Scraper {
        public static void main(String[] args) {
           beforeTest();
            }
         public static void beforeTest() {
            System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "/Users/ngan.nguyen/Downloads/chromedriver.exe");
            WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
            driver.navigate().to("https://www.indeed.com/");
            driver.manage().window().maximize();
        }
    }

And I got this exception: cannot found the ChromeDriver class

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/openqa/selenium/remote/http/HttpClient$Factory
    at Scraper.beforeTest(Scraper.java:39)
    at Scraper.main(Scraper.java:32)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.openqa.selenium.remote.http.HttpClient$Factory
    at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.BuiltinClassLoader.loadClass(BuiltinClassLoader.java:581)
    at java.base/jdk.internal.loader.ClassLoaders$AppClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoaders.java:178)
    at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:522)
    ... 2 more

I think it was because my path to chromedriver is not correct in the setProperty method. Chromedriver and Chrome versions are compatible. I also downloaded all needed jar files. How do I get the correct path or is it because of something else? (I'm using IntelliJ)

CodePudding user response：

Path of the chrome driver exe should be full from drive name.
You can keep driver exe in project folder and use it by giving path as "./FolderName/chromeDriver.exe");
```
   System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver, "C//chromedriver.exe);
```

CodePudding user response：

THIS IS A BAD PRACTICE TO SPECIFY PATH.

Always put your drivers in your work directory and then use "system.getProperty" to locate the driver.

String src = System.getProperty("user.dir")   "/bin/geckodriver.exe";
System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", src);