How to use this plugin

[gurumark]

I downloaded this plugin to data-integration/plugins/steps directory .
when I wanted to use the plugin I get:
org.pentaho.di.core.exception.KettlePluginException:
Class not found
be.ibridge.kettle.jsoup.JsoupInputMeta

Is there anything I missed?

[MerouaneBen]

I get the same error!

[gkfabs]

Did you compile the plugin?

[MerouaneBen]

No, could please share steps to follow to compile it ?
Thanks !

[gurumark]

Here is what I did:
1- git clone the rep into steps directory
2- cd Kettle-jsoup
3- ant compile and got the error below;

ant compile
Buildfile: /Applications/data-integration/plugins/steps/Kettle-jsoup/build.xml

compile:
[javac] Compiling 5 source files to /Applications/data-integration/plugins/steps/Kettle-jsoup/build
[javac] /Applications/data-integration/plugins/steps/Kettle-jsoup/src/be/ibridge/kettle/jsoup/JsoupInput.java:21: error: package org.apache.commons.vfs does not exist
[javac] import org.apache.commons.vfs.FileObject;
[javac] ^
[javac] /Applications/data-integration/plugins/steps/Kettle-jsoup/src/be/ibridge/kettle/jsoup/JsoupInputMeta.java:18: error: package org.apache.commons.vfs does not exist
[javac] import org.apache.commons.vfs.FileObject;
[javac] ^
[javac] /Applications/data-integration/plugins/steps/Kettle-jsoup/src/be/ibridge/kettle/jsoup/JsoupInput.java:178: error: cannot find symbol
[javac] private void addFileToResultFilesname(FileObject file) throws Exception {
[javac] ^
[javac] symbol: class FileObject
[javac] location: class JsoupInput
[javac] /Applications/data-integration/plugins/steps/Kettle-jsoup/src/be/ibridge/kettle/jsoup/JsoupInputData.java:51: error: cannot find symbol
[javac] public FileObject file;
[javac] ^
[javac] symbol: class FileObject
[javac] location: class JsoupInputData
[javac] /Applications/data-integration/plugins/steps/Kettle-jsoup/src/be/ibridge/kettle/jsoup/JsoupInput.java:78: error: cannot find symbol
[javac] List nonExistantFiles = data.files.getNonExistantFiles();
[javac] ^
[javac] symbol: class FileObject
[javac] location: class JsoupInput
[javac] /Applications/data-integration/plugins/steps/Kettle-jsoup/src/be/ibridge/kettle/jsoup/JsoupInput.java:86: error: cannot find symbol
[javac] List nonAccessibleFiles = data.files.getNonAccessibleFiles();
[javac] ^
[javac] symbol: class FileObject
[javac] location: class JsoupInput
[javac] /Applications/data-integration/plugins/steps/Kettle-jsoup/src/be/ibridge/kettle/jsoup/JsoupInput.java:156: error: cannot access FileSystemOptions
[javac] data.file = KettleVFS.getFileObject(fieldValue, getTransMeta());
[javac] ^
[javac] class file for org.apache.commons.vfs.FileSystemOptions not found
[javac] /Applications/data-integration/plugins/steps/Kettle-jsoup/src/be/ibridge/kettle/jsoup/JsoupInput.java:196: error: cannot find symbol
[javac] data.file = (FileObject) data.files.getFile(data.filenr);
[javac] ^
[javac] symbol: class FileObject
[javac] location: class JsoupInput
[javac] /Applications/data-integration/plugins/steps/Kettle-jsoup/src/be/ibridge/kettle/jsoup/JsoupInputMeta.java:1074: error: cannot find symbol
[javac] for (FileObject fileObject : fileList.getFiles()) {
[javac] ^
[javac] symbol: class FileObject
[javac] location: class JsoupInputMeta
[javac] Note: /Applications/data-integration/plugins/steps/Kettle-jsoup/src/be/ibridge/kettle/jsoup/JsoupInput.java uses or overrides a deprecated API.
[javac] Note: Recompile with -Xlint:deprecation for details.
[javac] 9 errors

BUILD FAILED
/Applications/data-integration/plugins/steps/Kettle-jsoup/build.xml:36: Compile failed; see the compiler error output for details.

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