error: cannot find symbol

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Hello friends ,
Am working on TRUNK-4946 with four classes linked on this ticket which handles retiring any object that implements the Retireable interface example, BaseRetireHandler . To ensure we don’t write any other data when committing, I had to call the Context#refreshEntity() function mentioned in the ticket. Making the implementation of handle() in the BaseRetireHandler to appear like this:

@Override
public void handle(Retireable retireableObject, User retiringUser, Date retireDate, String retireReason) {

	// reload object from database if it has been saved before
	if (retireableObject.getId() != null) {
		Context.refreshEntity(retireableObject);
	}
	
	// skip over doing retire stuff if already retired
	if (!retireableObject.getRetired() || retireableObject.getRetiredBy() == null) {
		
		retireableObject.setRetired(true);
		retireableObject.setRetireReason(retireReason);
		
		if (retireableObject.getRetiredBy() == null) {
			retireableObject.setRetiredBy(retiringUser);
		}
		if (retireableObject.getDateRetired() == null) {
			retireableObject.setDateRetired(retireDate);
		}
		
	}
	
}

Then I added a unit test at the end of the class to verify the behavior: btu when I run mvn clean install after saving the changes, I run into this error https://pastebin.com/PwYEzRn5. I have tried different possible solutions but still running into the same output. I kindly request for help on how to solve this error.

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Just solve the error by: import org.openmrs.api.context.Context;

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Next time you can make a commit such that we can relate the line of code referenced in the stack trace to your code…

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Thanks for the advice .

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@jwnasambu what do you get when you run debug with “mvn clean install -X” .It look like [ERROR] \Users\JULIE\OpenMRS-Tickets\openmrs-core\api\src\main\java\org\openmrs\api\handler\BaseRetireHandler.java:[59,3] error: cannot find symbol

BaseRetireHandler.java is not being seen on the path.

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Thanks so much for your prompt response. My error was caused by missing the import for Context which I solve by by adding import org.openmrs.api.context.Context; near the top of the class. Once again! am grateful for your response.

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Glad you did. :smile: :smile:

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just an add on,so many times when you are missing an import,you always get a red line around the code that requires the import.tested this with eclipse IDE

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Hello friends, can someone help me understand the abnormality of this unit test build failure. Am working on this ticket which has four classes and each needs a unit test. I had successfully created unit tests for the first three classes BaseRetireHandler, BaseUnretireHandler and BaseVoidHandler but when I re-run mvn package -Dtest=BaseVoidHandlerTest#handle_shoudNotUpdateFieldBesidesVoidFields to reconfirm if the test for BaseVoidHandler class still works well, I got this error https://pastebin.com/ivWhDZL1 which prompted me to re-test the BaseUnretireHandler and the output was the same error log as this https://pastebin.com/ivWhDZL1. Today, without any changes made I attempted to test the BaseVoidHandler class again and the build is successful as you can see on this link https://pastebin.com/dVgQrMuv. I’m confused because I had spend two days searching for the solution to the error without any success but today without any changes made, its building. This is the link to my changes https://github.com/openmrs/openmrs-core/compare/master...jwnasambu:TRUNK-4946?expand=1. Kindly what is the trick? am scared of spending more days on this now that am working on my final class.