Opencensus Metric collection example failing with ClassNotFoundException

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Quickstart example that is given in the opencensus repo failing with below exception.

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/google/api/client/json/jackson2/JacksonFactory
	at io.opencensus.exporter.stats.stackdriver.StackdriverStatsConfiguration.<clinit>(StackdriverStatsConfiguration.java:50)
	at com.example.opencensus.Quickstart.main(Quickstart.java:26)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.google.api.client.json.jackson2.JacksonFactory
	at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:387)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:418)
	at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:355)
	at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:351)
	... 2 more

I have just cloned the repo into my machine to ran the example. Did not make changes to either code or pom.xml, still I a getting the aboe exception.

Am I missing something here?

[lesv]

@dazuma We probably should deprecate this sample in favor of OpenTelemetry. Is this in your world or can you send it to someone who should do it?