Why doesn't this code attempting to use Hamcrest's hasItems compile?

Question

Why does this not compile, oh, what to do?

import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;
import static org.junit.matchers.JUnitMatchers.hasItems;

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Answer 1

You can get this error if you try to replace jUnit's hamcrest with a newer version. For example, using junit-dep together with hamcrest 1.3 requires that use assertThat from hamcrest instead of jUnit.

So the solution is to use

import static org.hamcrest.MatcherAssert.assertThat;

instead of

import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;