javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse.getStatus() not found

Question

I am working with an embedded Jetty server, deploying a Jersey REST api, and I am trying to log the errors, with log4J. When an error happens, for instance a URL not found,

Answer 1

I had the same problem while I was running tests with MockMvc. I was using javax.servlet-api in my library, which was a dependency in my microservice. I changed scope from compile to provided. Now it is working.

<dependency>
  <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
  <artifactId>servlet-api</artifactId>
  <version>2.5</version>
  <scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>

Answer 2

You have a really old servlet-api jar present in your project.

javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse#getStatus() was added in Servlet 3.0

Add the following:

<dependency>
  <groupId>javax.servlet</groupId>
  <artifactId>javax.servlet-api</artifactId>
  <version>3.1.0</version>
</dependency>

Dump your dependencies and verify that you don't have multiple versions of the servlet-api jars present (this is common, as the maven coordinate space for the servlet-api jars have changed a few times over the past 10 years)

$ mvn dependency:tree