ClassNotFound exception while trying to use DataflowRunner

Question

I am trying to run a Dataflow job on GCP using Apache Beam 0.6.0. I am compiling an uber jar using the shadow plugin because I cannot start the task using "mvn: execjava". I include this dependency:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.beam</groupId>
  <artifactId>beam-runners-google-cloud-dataflow-java</artifactId>
  <version>0.6.0-SNAPSHOT</version>
</dependency>

I get the following exception:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unknown 'runner' specified 'DataflowRunner', supported pipeline runners [DirectRunner]
    at org.apache.beam.sdk.options.PipelineOptionsFactory.parseObjects(PipelineOptionsFactory.java:1609)
    at org.apache.beam.sdk.options.PipelineOptionsFactory.access$400(PipelineOptionsFactory.java:104)
    at org.apache.beam.sdk.options.PipelineOptionsFactory$Builder.as(PipelineOptionsFactory.java:289)
    at com.disney.dtss.desa.tools.SpannerSinkTest.main(SpannerSinkTest.java:116)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: DataflowRunner
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:331)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
    at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
    at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:264)
    at org.apache.beam.sdk.options.PipelineOptionsFactory.parseObjects(PipelineOptionsFactory.java:1595)

Did I miss something else?

Answer 1

try

mvn compile exec:java -Dexec.mainClass=Yourmain Class -Pdataflow-runner

* add -Pdataflow-runner on the last