While accessing Azure Blob getting this exception "Could not initialize class com.azure.storage.blob.implementation.util.ModelHelper"

Question

I am accessing the Azure blob from spring boot application as mentioned in the documentation, I have included the following JAR,

        <dependency>
        <groupId>com.azure</groupId>
        <artifactId>azure-storage-blob</artifactId>
        <version>12.12.0</version>
        </dependency>

Then I am using the following code to list down files in Azure blob,

            BlobContainerClient blobContainerClient = new BlobContainerClientBuilder()
                .endpoint(fileServerURL + "/" + containerName + "/test/123" + "?" + sasToken)
                .buildClient();

I am accessing the blob inside the container and listing the files,

blobContainerClient.listBlobs()
                            .stream().<<mycode>>

When I try to debug, breakpoints runs after line 2, exactly at the .endpoint() method call. No stacktrace which is weird (I tried to enclose within try/catch) but no use. I get the following exception in the client,

Handler dispatch failed; nested exception is java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class com.azure.storage.blob.implementation.util.ModelHelper