Intellij cannot resolve symbol 'lang3' apache

Question

I would like to use StringUtils and have downloaded the "apache commons jar" zip file, copied the unzipped jar file into a lib folder in my intellij project, and added it to Libraries and to the classpath (via Project Settings). Then I imported with

import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;

but intelliJ can't resolve 'lang3'. Does anyone have any advice? Note: similar questions exist on stack exchange, eg. here and here, but they're not quite the same issue and their solutions haven't helped.

FYI I downloaded the 'common-lang3/common-lang3.jar.zip' folder from this website.

Thanks!

Answer 1

You need to unpack the zip and add the extracted common-lang3.jar file to the module dependencies instead of the downloaded common-lang3.jar.zip file.

Here is the sample project: HelloStringUtils.zip.

Result of the execution and import working:

Dependency configuration screenshots:

• module dependencies
• library contents
• StringUtils class browsable in the library jar