Unable to initialize main class liquibase.integration.commandline.LiquibaseCommandLine

Environment

Liquibase Version: 4.16.0, 4.17.0

Liquibase Integration & Version: gradle 7.5.1

Liquibase Extension(s) & Version: -

Database Vendor & Version: PostgreSQL 14

Operating System Type & Version: Arch Linux, Microsoft Windows 11

Infrastructure Type/Provider: -

Description

Executing diffChangelog, diff, history, … results in the following errors:

> Task :diffChangeLog FAILED
liquibase-plugin: Running the 'main' activity...
Error: Unable to initialize main class liquibase.integration.commandline.LiquibaseCommandLine
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: picocli/CommandLine$IFactory

Unable to initialize main class liquibase.integration.commandline.LiquibaseCommandLine

Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: picocli/CommandLine$IFactory

Execution failed for task ':diffChangeLog'.
> Process 'command '/home/dt/.jdks/openjdk-17.0.1/bin/java'' finished with non-zero exit value 1

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Steps To Reproduce

Execute diffChangelog, diff, history, … using gradle in IntelliJ IDEA 2022.2.3.

Actual Behavior

No changelog file is generated, see output above.

Expected/Desired Behavior

A changelog file is generated successfully in 4.15.0.

[LettuceBacon]

I had same problem after running project that was frozen for a few weeks. For me the workaround was adding picocli as a Liquibase runtime dependency:

dependencies {
    ...
    liquibaseRuntime 'info.picocli:picocli:4.6.3'
    liquibaseRuntime 'org.liquibase:liquibase-core:4.17.1'
    ...
}

Thank you! It works for me too.

[FBurguer]

@dtext Looks like adding picocli as a dependency can fix your issue, did you try that?