Error "java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: oracle.i18n.text.converter.CharacterConverterOGS.getInstance" (Doc ID 465177.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Applies to:

Symptoms

When the application uses the Oracle Globalization Development Kit (GDK) orai18n library classes OraSimpleDateFormat, OraDateFormat or OraNumberFormat to perform date and number formatting with the familiar Oracle TO_CHAR format models rather than using Java equivalents, the application fails with:

    java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: oracle.i18n.text.converter.CharacterConverterOGS.getInstance(I)Loracle/i18n/text/converter/CharacterConverter;
        at oracle.sql.converter.CharacterConverterFactoryOGS.make(CharacterConverterFactoryOGS.java:43)
        at oracle.sql.CharacterSetWithConverter.getInstance(CharacterSetWithConverter.java:95)
        at oracle.sql.CharacterSetFactoryThin.make(CharacterSetFactoryThin.java:126)
        at oracle.sql.CharacterSet.make(CharacterSet.java:447)
        at oracle.sql.CHAR.<clinit>(CHAR.java:66)
        at oracle.jdbc.oracore.OracleTypeCHAR.toDatum(OracleTypeCHAR.java:142)
        at oracle.sql.StructDescriptor.toOracleArray(StructDescriptor.java:719) 
        at oracle.sql.StructDescriptor.toArray(StructDescriptor.java:1286)
        at oracle.sql.STRUCT.<init>(STRUCT.java:156)
        <... application specific methods ...>

Changes

The JDBC/Thin driver was upgraded.

Cause

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