This project has a class with a method that calls a Guava method which was removed in version 18.
This project calls the method from has above, while setting the Guava
dependency in pom.xml to version 18. By overriding the Guava version that has
depends on, a NoSuchMethodError would be encountered at runtime.
When the missinglink-maven-plugin is executed against this example project (the
example adds the plugin to the build lifecycle automatically), it outputs a
warning about this conflict and fails the build since failOnConflicts=true:
$ cd examples/uses-problematic-dependency
$ mvn test
[INFO] Scanning for projects...
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[INFO] Building uses-problematic-dependency 0.1-SNAPSHOT
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[INFO]
...
[INFO]
[INFO] --- missinglink-maven-plugin:0.1.0:check-conflicts (default) @ uses-problematic-dependency ---
[INFO] 1 conflicts found
[WARNING] - Problem in class com.spotify.missinglink.examples.ProblematicDependency
method: java.lang.Object reliesOnRemovedMethod()
call to: com.google.common.base.Enums.valueOfFunction(java.lang.Class)
reason: Method not found: com.google.common.base.Enums.valueOfFunction(java.lang.Class)
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[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
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