Exception in KafkaAvroJavaProducerV1Demo

[asarraf]

https://github.com/simplesteph/kafka-avro-course/blob/c991400baaa62352a87255234f306a04d275e780/kafka-avro-v1/src/main/java/com/github/simplesteph/kafka/apps/v1/KafkaAvroJavaProducerV1Demo.java#L23C14-L23C14

This line results into the below exception:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: io/confluent/kafka/schemaregistry/client/rest/exceptions/RestClientException
	at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
	at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:348)
	at org.apache.kafka.common.config.ConfigDef.parseType(ConfigDef.java:735)
	at org.apache.kafka.common.config.ConfigDef.parseValue(ConfigDef.java:490)
	at org.apache.kafka.common.config.ConfigDef.parse(ConfigDef.java:483)
	at org.apache.kafka.common.config.AbstractConfig.<init>(AbstractConfig.java:113)
	at org.apache.kafka.common.config.AbstractConfig.<init>(AbstractConfig.java:133)
	at org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.ProducerConfig.<init>(ProducerConfig.java:553)
	at org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.KafkaProducer.<init>(KafkaProducer.java:289)
	at org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.KafkaProducer.<init>(KafkaProducer.java:316)
	at org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.KafkaProducer.<init>(KafkaProducer.java:301)
	at com.example.KafkaAvroProducerV1.main(KafkaAvroProducerV1.java:23)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: io.confluent.kafka.schemaregistry.client.rest.exceptions.RestClientException
	at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:387)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:418)
	at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:352)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:351)
	... 12 more

The way to resolve it is to not exclude kafka-schema-registry-client in the respective pom file.