"not authorized to execute this request" using the arangodb java driver

Question

I want to use the java driver for ArangoDB in a Maven project on Eclipse. I am trying to follow the tutorial for the java driver for ArangoDB available here, but I cannot even get the simpler application to work, even starting from a clean project.

main.java:

package test;

import com.arangodb.ArangoDB;

public class main {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        ArangoDB arangoDB = new ArangoDB.Builder().build();

        arangoDB.createDatabase("myDatabase");
    }

}

pom.xml:

<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" 
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 
http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
  <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
  <groupId>test</groupId>
   <artifactId>test</artifactId>
  <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
        <groupId>com.arangodb</groupId>
        <artifactId>arangodb-java-driver</artifactId>
        <version>4.2.0</version>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</project>

I get the following error when running the code:

SLF4J: Failed to load class "org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder".
SLF4J: Defaulting to no-operation (NOP) logger implementation
SLF4J: See http://www.slf4j.org/codes.html#StaticLoggerBinder for further details.
Exception in thread "main" com.arangodb.ArangoDBException: Response: 401, Error: 11 - not authorized to execute this request
    at com.arangodb.internal.velocystream.VstCommunication.checkError(VstCommunication.java:106)
    at com.arangodb.internal.velocystream.VstCommunicationSync.execute(VstCommunicationSync.java:134)
    at com.arangodb.internal.velocystream.VstCommunicationSync.execute(VstCommunicationSync.java:46)
    at com.arangodb.internal.velocystream.VstCommunication.execute(VstCommunication.java:96)
    at com.arangodb.internal.velocystream.VstProtocol.execute(VstProtocol.java:46)
    at com.arangodb.internal.ArangoExecutorSync.execute(ArangoExecutorSync.java:58)
    at com.arangodb.ArangoDB.createDatabase(ArangoDB.java:437)
    at test.main.main(main.java:12)

I tried other basic operations, none work (even a simple arangoDB.getVersion();).

If I add the following dependency to the pom.xml, it removes warnings but not the errors:

<dependency> 
    <groupId>org.slf4j</groupId>
    <artifactId>slf4j-simple</artifactId>
    <version>1.7.22</version>
</dependency>

Result:

Exception in thread "main" com.arangodb.ArangoDBException: Response: 401, Error: 11 - not authorized to execute this request
    at com.arangodb.internal.velocystream.VstCommunication.checkError(VstCommunication.java:106)
    at com.arangodb.internal.velocystream.VstCommunicationSync.execute(VstCommunicationSync.java:134)
    at com.arangodb.internal.velocystream.VstCommunicationSync.execute(VstCommunicationSync.java:46)
    at com.arangodb.internal.velocystream.VstCommunication.execute(VstCommunication.java:96)
    at com.arangodb.internal.velocystream.VstProtocol.execute(VstProtocol.java:46)
    at com.arangodb.internal.ArangoExecutorSync.execute(ArangoExecutorSync.java:58)
    at com.arangodb.ArangoDB.createDatabase(ArangoDB.java:437)
    at test.main.main(main.java:12)

In my understanding, receiving a Response: 401 indicates that the credentials provided (or not) are not enough to perform the query on the target database. — Tome
– Tome, Commented Jun 27, 2017 at 8:26

fxrbfg · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-27 08:36:14Z

1

You need to specify connection data to your db like user, password and etc, all what is db need to succesfully connection, check again javadoc of class Builder and set user and password.

ArangoDB arangoDB = new ArangoDB.Builder().build();

Here you setup nothing and build ArrangoDb instance without any connection data at all

edited Jun 27, 2017 at 8:36

answered Jun 27, 2017 at 8:30

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Guiux Over a year ago

So, I actually followed this tutorial in which no user name is given.

Guiux Over a year ago

I partially solved the problem by setting the user: ArangoDB arangoDB = new ArangoDB.Builder().user("root").build();. Now the operations of creating, databases, collections and documents work, but attempting to read an existing document yields a NullPointerException.

Guiux Over a year ago

I get this error following the tutorial I just mentioned, or trying to use some code that previously worked when I compiled the Java driver myself, but not anymore since I tried to use Maven.

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