# cannot find symbol error!!!
**URL:** https://talk.openmrs.org/t/cannot-find-symbol-error/22479
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [March 22, 2019, 12:59pm UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/cannot-find-symbol-error/22479 "2019-03-22T12:59:27Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@herbert24](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/herbert24)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2019, 12:59pm UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/cannot-find-symbol-error/22479/1 "2019-03-22T12:59:27Z")
within the metadatadeploy module,i am introducing DbSession and DbSessionFactory as per requirements of the ticket.I have done this by upgrading core from 1.10.0 to 1.10.2 as seen here [https://pastebin.com/P3Z2jXuU](https://pastebin.com/P3Z2jXuU) I then import the DbSession and DbSessionFactory successfully as seen here [https://pastebin.com/Uy8a9hp8](https://pastebin.com/Uy8a9hp8) but on building i get a cannot find symbol error as seen here [https://pastebin.com/rDvtJr7f](https://pastebin.com/rDvtJr7f) Any suggestion on solving this @dkayiwa
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### Author:  [@tendomart](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/tendomart)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2019, 5:46am UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/cannot-find-symbol-error/22479/2 "2019-03-25T05:46:15Z")
[ERROR] /F:/openmrsmodules/modules/openmrs-module-metadatadeploy/api/src/main/java/org/openmrs/module/metadatadeploy/handler/impl/PersonAttributeTypeDeployHandler.java:[21,36] cannot find symbol
Did your project compile correctly at install?
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### Author:  [@k.joseph](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/k.joseph)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2019, 1:32pm UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/cannot-find-symbol-error/22479/3 "2019-03-25T13:32:29Z")
can you make sure your openMRSBuildVersion is being used and not anything else? else check the scopes of your openmrs-api dependencies. the easiest way to catch it look through and compare with some updated modules out there at
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### Author:  [@herbert24](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/herbert24)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2019, 1:52pm UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/cannot-find-symbol-error/22479/4 "2019-03-25T13:52:19Z")
okie then let me do that thanks
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### Author:  [@mozzy](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/mozzy)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2019, 2:12pm UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/cannot-find-symbol-error/22479/5 "2019-03-25T14:12:09Z")
@herbert24, are you talking about this ticket here [https://issues.openmrs.org/browse/DPLY-40.?](https://issues.openmrs.org/browse/DPLY-40.?)? i thought you’re no longer working on it since it wasn’t claimed at all. if your still working on it , you can re-assign it back to your self otherwise i had taken it up
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### Author:  [@herbert24](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/herbert24)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2019, 2:18pm UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/cannot-find-symbol-error/22479/6 "2019-03-25T14:18:12Z")
first unassign from your side
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### Author:  [@mozzy](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/mozzy)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2019, 2:23pm UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/cannot-find-symbol-error/22479/7 "2019-03-25T14:23:14Z")
ok ,but u can just switch anyway
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### Author:  [@mozzy](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/mozzy)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2019, 2:27pm UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/cannot-find-symbol-error/22479/8 "2019-03-25T14:27:15Z")
ok you can go ahead and claim it
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### Author:  [@herbert24](https://talk.openmrs.org/u/herbert24)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2019, 1:37pm UTC](https://talk.openmrs.org/t/cannot-find-symbol-error/22479/9 "2019-03-29T13:37:24Z")
following @k.joseph’s idea,i have checked my poms and made sure i get to the openmrsVersion that my DbSession and DbSessionFactory relies on, from that point i was able to upgrade the required pom,then theb build was successful with mvn clean install.thanks every one