ExtentReport is not generated in Maven repository - selenium

Question

I have added the extent report dependency from the maven repository in pom.xml but when I am trying to use "ExtentSparkReporter" in my code, the import is not happening.
Below is my pom.xml
<groupId>com.aventstack</groupId>
<artifactId>extentreports</artifactId>
<version>4.0.9</version>
</dependency>
Below is my file:
public void config()
{
String path =System.getProperty("user.dir")+"\\reports\\index.html";
ExtentSparkReporter reporter = new ExtentSparkReporter(path);
//no methods have been initiated in config
}
public void initialDemo()
{
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C://chromedriver.exe");
WebDriver driver =new ChromeDriver();
driver.get("https://www.google.com");
System.out.println(driver.getTitle());
driver.close();
//test.fail("Result do not match");
}
}
It will be a great help if anyone helps me regarding this.
P:s - As I have checked some of the solution to downgrade the extendreports library , so I am using 4.0.9.
Thanks

Answer 1

you are missing some key components:
The ExtentSparkReporter needs to be attached to the ExtentReports object
You need to flush the ExtentReports object at the end of all tests
Here's a sample using 5.0.9 ( it works with 4.0.9 also)
Using these maven dependencies:
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
<version>3.141.59</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.testng</groupId>
<artifactId>testng</artifactId>
<version>7.4.0</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>com.aventstack</groupId>
<artifactId>extentreports</artifactId>
<version>5.0.9</version>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
I'm using testng to manipulate the order the code is executed.
import com.aventstack.extentreports.ExtentReports;
import com.aventstack.extentreports.ExtentTest;
import com.aventstack.extentreports.reporter.ExtentSparkReporter;
import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.chrome.ChromeDriver;
import org.testng.annotations.*;
public class TestDemo {
public ExtentReports extent = new ExtentReports();
public ExtentSparkReporter reporter;
public ExtentTest test;
public WebDriver driver;
#BeforeSuite
public void beforeSuite() { // it will be executed only once, before all the tests, so we won't have duplicate reports or override the file for each test
System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "C://chromedriver.exe"); //set the chrome path for all tests only once
String path = System.getProperty("user.dir")+"\\reports\\index.html";
reporter = new ExtentSparkReporter(path);
}
#BeforeMethod
public void beforeMethod(){
driver = new ChromeDriver(); // create the chrome instance before each tests
}
#Test
public void aFastTest() {
test = extent.createTest("aFastTest");
driver.get("https://www.google.com");
System.out.println(driver.getTitle());
driver.close();
test.fail("Failed");
}
#Test
public void anotherTestPassed() {
test = extent.createTest("anotherTestPassed");
driver.get("https://www.google.com");
System.out.println(driver.getTitle());
driver.close();
test.pass("hey my test passed");
}
#AfterSuite
public void afterSuite(){ //executed after all the tests have ran
extent.attachReporter(reporter);
extent.flush();
}
}