:app:kaptDevDebugKotlin FAILED Build exception: cannot find symbol DataBindingComponent

Question

I've been trying to solve this annoying issue for way too long without any progress.

Our application has most classes written in Kotlin, and we are using databinding as well:

apply plugin: "kotlin-kapt"  
apply plugin: 'kotlin-android'  
apply plugin: 'kotlin-android-extensions'

When trying to run de application, we see multiple exceptions as the following in the build dialog (when I say multiple, I mean more than 50):

e: .../android/app/build/generated/source/dataBinding/baseClasses/dev/debug/com/company/app/databinding/IncludeFilterHeaderTabButtonBinding.java:21: error: cannot find symbol
  protected IncludeFilterHeaderTabButtonBinding(DataBindingComponent _bindingComponent, View _root,
                                                ^
  symbol:   class DataBindingComponent
  location: class IncludeFilterHeaderTabButtonBinding

This app imports a home made SDK, which is entirely written in Java, and uses data binding as well. Is there any known issue from doing this?

This are the dependencies for the main app:

implementation 'com.android.support:support-core-utils:27.1.1'  
implementation 'com.android.support:support-annotations:27.1.1'  
implementation 'com.android.support.constraint:constraint-layout:1.1.2'  
implementation 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:27.1.1'  
implementation 'com.android.support:design:27.1.1'  
implementation 'com.android.support:cardview-v7:27.1.1'  
implementation 'com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:27.1.1'  
implementation 'com.android.support:customtabs:27.1.1'  

implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-vision:12.0.1'  
implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-maps:12.0.1'  

implementation 'com.afollestad.material-dialogs:core:0.9.6.0'  
implementation 'com.afollestad.material-dialogs:commons:0.9.6.0'  

implementation 'com.github.bumptech.glide:glide:4.7.1'  
kapt 'com.github.bumptech.glide:compiler:4.7.1'  
implementation 'com.github.bumptech.glide:compiler:4.7.1'  
kapt "com.android.databinding:compiler:3.1.3"

implementation 'com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp:3.9.0'  
implementation 'com.squareup.okhttp3:logging-interceptor:3.9.0'  

implementation 'com.squareup.retrofit2:retrofit:2.3.0'  
implementation 'com.squareup.retrofit2:converter-gson:2.3.0'  
implementation 'com.squareup.retrofit2:converter-simplexml:2.3.0'  

implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-core:12.0.1'  
implementation 'org.simpleframework:simple-xml:2.7.+'  

implementation 'net.danlew:android.joda:2.9.9'  

implementation 'me.dm7.barcodescanner:zxing:1.9.8'  

// Home made SDK initialization per flavor and build type
implementation(name: 'appauth-1.0.2', ext: 'aar')  
mockDebugCompile(name: 'sdk-mock-debug', ext: 'aar')  
mockReleaseCompile(name: 'sdk-mock-release', ext: 'aar')  
devDebugCompile(name: 'sdk-dev-debug', ext: 'aar')  
devReleaseCompile(name: 'sdk-dev-release', ext: 'aar')  
proDebugCompile(name: 'sdk-pro-debug', ext: 'aar')  
proReleaseCompile(name: 'sdk-pro-release', 'ext': 'aar')  

// Testing
testImplementation 'junit:junit:4.12'
androidTestImplementation('com.android.support.test.espresso:espresso-core:2.2.2', {
    exclude group: 'com.android.support', module: 'support-annotations'
})
implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk7:$kotlin_version"
// Crashlytics Kit
implementation('com.crashlytics.sdk.android:crashlytics:2.9.1@aar') {
    transitive = true
}

With the following versions:

Android Studio 3.1.3
Gradle 3.1.3
Kotlin Gradle Plugin 1.2.51

Of course, we have

dataBinding {
    enabled = true
}

Thanks!

UPDATE

Adding the output from ./gradlew build --stacktrace

* Exception is:
org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskExecutionException: Execution failed for task ':app:kaptDevDebugKotlin'.
        at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.executeActions(ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.java:100)
        at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.execute(ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.java:70)
        at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.OutputDirectoryCreatingTaskExecuter.execute(OutputDirectoryCreatingTaskExecuter.java:51)
        at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.SkipUpToDateTaskExecuter.execute(SkipUpToDateTaskExecuter.java:62)
        at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ResolveTaskOutputCachingStateExecuter.execute(ResolveTaskOutputCachingStateExecuter.java:54)
        at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ValidatingTaskExecuter.execute(ValidatingTaskExecuter.java:60)
        at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.SkipEmptySourceFilesTaskExecuter.execute(SkipEmptySourceFilesTaskExecuter.java:97)
        at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.CleanupStaleOutputsExecuter.execute(CleanupStaleOutputsExecuter.java:87)
        at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ResolveTaskArtifactStateTaskExecuter.execute(ResolveTaskArtifactStateTaskExecuter.java:52)
        at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.SkipTaskWithNoActionsExecuter.execute(SkipTaskWithNoActionsExecuter.java:52)
        at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.SkipOnlyIfTaskExecuter.execute(SkipOnlyIfTaskExecuter.java:54)
        at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteAtMostOnceTaskExecuter.execute(ExecuteAtMostOnceTaskExecuter.java:43)
        at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.CatchExceptionTaskExecuter.execute(CatchExceptionTaskExecuter.java:34)
        at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskGraphExecuter$EventFiringTaskWorker$1.run(DefaultTaskGraphExecuter.java:248)
        at org.gradle.internal.progress.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor$RunnableBuildOperationWorker.execute(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:336)
        at org.gradle.internal.progress.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor$RunnableBuildOperationWorker.execute(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:328)
        at org.gradle.internal.progress.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.execute(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:199)
        at org.gradle.internal.progress.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.run(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:110)
        at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskGraphExecuter$EventFiringTaskWorker.execute(DefaultTaskGraphExecuter.java:241)
        at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskGraphExecuter$EventFiringTaskWorker.execute(DefaultTaskGraphExecuter.java:230)
        at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskPlanExecutor$TaskExecutorWorker.processTask(DefaultTaskPlanExecutor.java:123)
        at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskPlanExecutor$TaskExecutorWorker.access$200(DefaultTaskPlanExecutor.java:79)
        at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskPlanExecutor$TaskExecutorWorker$1.execute(DefaultTaskPlanExecutor.java:104)
        at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskPlanExecutor$TaskExecutorWorker$1.execute(DefaultTaskPlanExecutor.java:98)
        at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskExecutionPlan.execute(DefaultTaskExecutionPlan.java:626)
        at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskExecutionPlan.executeWithTask(DefaultTaskExecutionPlan.java:581)
        at org.gradle.execution.taskgraph.DefaultTaskPlanExecutor$TaskExecutorWorker.run(DefaultTaskPlanExecutor.java:98)
        at org.gradle.internal.concurrent.ExecutorPolicy$CatchAndRecordFailures.onExecute(ExecutorPolicy.java:63)
        at org.gradle.internal.concurrent.ManagedExecutorImpl$1.run(ManagedExecutorImpl.java:46)
        at org.gradle.internal.concurrent.ThreadFactoryImpl$ManagedThreadRunnable.run(ThreadFactoryImpl.java:55)
Caused by: org.gradle.api.GradleException: Compilation error. See log for more details
        at org.jetbrains.kotlin.gradle.tasks.TasksUtilsKt.throwGradleExceptionIfError(tasksUtils.kt:8)
        at org.jetbrains.kotlin.gradle.internal.KaptTask.compile(KaptTask.kt:124)
        at org.gradle.internal.reflect.JavaMethod.invoke(JavaMethod.java:73)
        at org.gradle.api.internal.project.taskfactory.StandardTaskAction.doExecute(StandardTaskAction.java:46)
        at org.gradle.api.internal.project.taskfactory.StandardTaskAction.execute(StandardTaskAction.java:39)
        at org.gradle.api.internal.project.taskfactory.StandardTaskAction.execute(StandardTaskAction.java:26)
        at org.gradle.api.internal.AbstractTask$TaskActionWrapper.execute(AbstractTask.java:780)
        at org.gradle.api.internal.AbstractTask$TaskActionWrapper.execute(AbstractTask.java:747)
        at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter$1.run(ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.java:121)
        at org.gradle.internal.progress.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor$RunnableBuildOperationWorker.execute(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:336)
        at org.gradle.internal.progress.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor$RunnableBuildOperationWorker.execute(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:328)
        at org.gradle.internal.progress.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.execute(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:199)
        at org.gradle.internal.progress.DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.run(DefaultBuildOperationExecutor.java:110)
        at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.executeAction(ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.java:110)
        at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.executeActions(ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter.java:92)
        ... 29 more

UPDATE 2

I've been forced to check every single file in my project, looking for errors not logged by gradle... and after fixing a few Java files, the error has shifted from the original "cannot find symbol" to a single exception:

e: java.util.ServiceConfigurationError: javax.annotation.processing.Processor: android.databinding.annotationprocessor.ProcessDataBinding Unable to get public no-arg constructor
        at java.base/java.util.ServiceLoader.fail(ServiceLoader.java:581)
        at java.base/java.util.ServiceLoader.getConstructor(ServiceLoader.java:672)
        at java.base/java.util.ServiceLoader.access$1000(ServiceLoader.java:390)
        at java.base/java.util.ServiceLoader$LazyClassPathLookupIterator.hasNextService(ServiceLoader.java:1232)
        at java.base/java.util.ServiceLoader$LazyClassPathLookupIterator.hasNext(ServiceLoader.java:1264)
        at java.base/java.util.ServiceLoader$2.hasNext(ServiceLoader.java:1299)
        at java.base/java.util.ServiceLoader$3.hasNext(ServiceLoader.java:1384)
        at kotlin.collections.CollectionsKt___CollectionsKt.toCollection(_Collections.kt:1058)
        at kotlin.collections.CollectionsKt___CollectionsKt.toMutableList(_Collections.kt:1091)
        at kotlin.collections.CollectionsKt___CollectionsKt.toList(_Collections.kt:1082)
        at org.jetbrains.kotlin.kapt3.ClasspathBasedKapt3Extension.loadProcessors(Kapt3Extension.kt:106)
        at org.jetbrains.kotlin.kapt3.AbstractKapt3Extension.analysisCompleted(Kapt3Extension.kt:175)
        at org.jetbrains.kotlin.kapt3.ClasspathBasedKapt3Extension.analysisCompleted(Kapt3Extension.kt:93)
        at org.jetbrains.kotlin.cli.jvm.compiler.TopDownAnalyzerFacadeForJVM$analyzeFilesWithJavaIntegration$2.invoke(TopDownAnalyzerFacadeForJVM.kt:97)
        at org.jetbrains.kotlin.cli.jvm.compiler.TopDownAnalyzerFacadeForJVM.analyzeFilesWithJavaIntegration(TopDownAnalyzerFacadeForJVM.kt:107)
        at org.jetbrains.kotlin.cli.jvm.compiler.TopDownAnalyzerFacadeForJVM.analyzeFilesWithJavaIntegration$default(TopDownAnalyzerFacadeForJVM.kt:84)
        at org.jetbrains.kotlin.cli.jvm.compiler.KotlinToJVMBytecodeCompiler$analyze$1.invoke(KotlinToJVMBytecodeCompiler.kt:374)
        at org.jetbrains.kotlin.cli.jvm.compiler.KotlinToJVMBytecodeCompiler$analyze$1.invoke(KotlinToJVMBytecodeCompiler.kt:64)
        at org.jetbrains.kotlin.cli.common.messages.AnalyzerWithCompilerReport.analyzeAndReport(AnalyzerWithCompilerReport.kt:101)
        at org.jetbrains.kotlin.cli.jvm.compiler.KotlinToJVMBytecodeCompiler.analyze(KotlinToJVMBytecodeCompiler.kt:365)
        at org.jetbrains.kotlin.cli.jvm.compiler.KotlinToJVMBytecodeCompiler.compileModules$cli(KotlinToJVMBytecodeCompiler.kt:130)
        at org.jetbrains.kotlin.cli.jvm.K2JVMCompiler.doExecute(K2JVMCompiler.kt:161)
        at org.jetbrains.kotlin.cli.jvm.K2JVMCompiler.doExecute(K2JVMCompiler.kt:63)
        at org.jetbrains.kotlin.cli.common.CLICompiler.execImpl(CLICompiler.java:108)
        at org.jetbrains.kotlin.cli.common.CLICompiler.execImpl(CLICompiler.java:52)
        at org.jetbrains.kotlin.cli.common.CLITool.exec(CLITool.kt:92)
        at org.jetbrains.kotlin.incremental.IncrementalJvmCompilerRunner.runCompiler(IncrementalJvmCompilerRunner.kt:451)
        at org.jetbrains.kotlin.incremental.IncrementalJvmCompilerRunner.runCompiler(IncrementalJvmCompilerRunner.kt:97)
        at org.jetbrains.kotlin.incremental.IncrementalCompilerRunner.compileIncrementally(IncrementalCompilerRunner.kt:218)
        at org.jetbrains.kotlin.incremental.IncrementalCompilerRunner.access$compileIncrementally(IncrementalCompilerRunner.kt:37)
        at org.jetbrains.kotlin.incremental.IncrementalCompilerRunner$compile$2.invoke(IncrementalCompilerRunner.kt:80)
        at org.jetbrains.kotlin.incremental.IncrementalCompilerRunner.compile(IncrementalCompilerRunner.kt:92)
        at org.jetbrains.kotlin.daemon.CompileServiceImpl.execIncrementalCompiler(CompileServiceImpl.kt:527)
        at org.jetbrains.kotlin.daemon.CompileServiceImpl.access$execIncrementalCompiler(CompileServiceImpl.kt:97)
        at org.jetbrains.kotlin.daemon.CompileServiceImpl$compile$$inlined$ifAlive$lambda$2.invoke(CompileServiceImpl.kt:408)
        at org.jetbrains.kotlin.daemon.CompileServiceImpl$compile$$inlined$ifAlive$lambda$2.invoke(CompileServiceImpl.kt:97)
        at org.jetbrains.kotlin.daemon.CompileServiceImpl$doCompile$$inlined$ifAlive$lambda$2.invoke(CompileServiceImpl.kt:909)
        at org.jetbrains.kotlin.daemon.CompileServiceImpl$doCompile$$inlined$ifAlive$lambda$2.invoke(CompileServiceImpl.kt:97)
        at org.jetbrains.kotlin.daemon.common.DummyProfiler.withMeasure(PerfUtils.kt:137)
        at org.jetbrains.kotlin.daemon.CompileServiceImpl.checkedCompile(CompileServiceImpl.kt:939)
        at org.jetbrains.kotlin.daemon.CompileServiceImpl.doCompile(CompileServiceImpl.kt:908)
        at org.jetbrains.kotlin.daemon.CompileServiceImpl.compile(CompileServiceImpl.kt:407)
        at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
        at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:564)
        at java.rmi/sun.rmi.server.UnicastServerRef.dispatch(UnicastServerRef.java:359)
        at java.rmi/sun.rmi.transport.Transport$1.run(Transport.java:200)
        at java.rmi/sun.rmi.transport.Transport$1.run(Transport.java:197)
        at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.rmi/sun.rmi.transport.Transport.serviceCall(Transport.java:196)
        at java.rmi/sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport.handleMessages(TCPTransport.java:562)
        at java.rmi/sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run0(TCPTransport.java:796)
        at java.rmi/sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.lambda$run$0(TCPTransport.java:677)
        at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.rmi/sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run(TCPTransport.java:676)
        at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1135)
        at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:635)
        at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:844)
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: javax/xml/bind/JAXBException
        at java.base/java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors0(Native Method)
        at java.base/java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredConstructors(Class.java:3090)
        at java.base/java.lang.Class.getConstructor0(Class.java:3295)
        at java.base/java.lang.Class.getConstructor(Class.java:2110)
        at java.base/java.util.ServiceLoader$1.run(ServiceLoader.java:659)
        at java.base/java.util.ServiceLoader$1.run(ServiceLoader.java:656)
        at java.base/java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
        at java.base/java.util.ServiceLoader.getConstructor(ServiceLoader.java:667)
        ... 57 more
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: javax.xml.bind.JAXBException
        at java.base/java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:466)
        at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:566)
        at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:499)
        ... 65 more

Fortunately (I guess? IDK any more) after a quick clean and invalidate/restart everything went back to "normal" with the initial multiple exceptions.

So, for now, all I can do is keep checking and fixing until there aren't any errors left, and then we'll see... stay tuned.

Answer 1

FINALLY! I managed to make it compile. It was a matter of checking every single piece of code... a very pleasing experience, I will recommend it to all my friends.

As pointed out by outis in the comments of the question (thank you!), I am not the only one experiencing this funny error.

I'm creating my own answer as I can continue development. However, I don't think it's good enough. Therefore, I'm not marking it as the accepted answer as the compiler output is broken and unusable, and it will surely haunt my dreams in the future.

UPDATE

I've runned into this issue again recently, and I've noticed that, for some reason, declaring a view's id before the actual view (i.e. @+id/someview) doesn't mean that the view itself can use that same id (as @id/someview). AFAIK, this issue is non existant without databinding... so watch out!

Answer 2

This is brutal,

The way I managed to make it work is install java 8 on the local machine, run ./gradlew from the local machine.

This way I get the compilation errors fix them and then compile from Android Studio that uses it's own java version and will not fail anymore.