Failed to transform file '45907c80e09917e1b776adf038505958' to match attributes {artifactType=jar} using transform AarTransform

Question

I am using Android 3.0 canary 4 and making an app. Everything was working fine until yesterday, but today when i opened the project, it gave me an error

 F:\test projects\SellIT\app\build.gradle
Error:Failed to resolve: Failed to transform file '45907c80e09917e1b776adf038505958' to match attributes {artifactType=jar} using transform AarTransform
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Error:Failed to resolve: Failed to transform file '0424053f6b3433893454e7542cca3a9d' to match attributes {artifactType=jar} using transform AarTransform
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Error:Failed to resolve: Failed to transform file 'customtabs-25.0.0.aar' to match attributes {artifactType=android-exploded-aar} using transform ExtractAarTransform
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Error:Failed to resolve: Failed to transform file 'recyclerview-v7-25.4.0.aar' to match attributes {artifactType=android-exploded-aar} using transform ExtractAarTransform
<a href="openFile:F:/test projects/SellIT/app/build.gradle">Open File</a>

Error:Failed to resolve: Failed to transform file 'b7ae5d97f624a2ac68ed171c25f74f21' to match attributes {artifactType=jar} using transform AarTransform
<a href="openFile:F:/test projects/SellIT/app/build.gradle">Open File</a>

Error:Failed to resolve: Failed to transform file 'firebase-analytics-impl-10.2.4.aar' to match attributes {artifactType=android-exploded-aar} using transform ExtractAarTransform
<a href="openFile:F:/test projects/SellIT/app/build.gradle">Open File</a>

Error:Failed to resolve: Failed to transform file '8a727da2aab64813ae6d20842b03d41f' to match attributes {artifactType=jar} using transform AarTransform
<a href="openFile:F:/test projects/SellIT/app/build.gradle">Open File</a>

Error:Failed to resolve: Failed to transform file 'support-compat-25.4.0.aar' to match attributes {artifactType=android-exploded-aar} using transform ExtractAarTransform
<a href="openFile:F:/test projects/SellIT/app/build.gradle">Open File</a>

Error:Failed to resolve: Failed to transform file 'd0da7bf76907aa33e493551504efa952' to match attributes {artifactType=jar} using transform AarTransform
<a href="openFile:F:/test projects/SellIT/app/build.gradle">Open File</a>

this is my build.gradle (app level)

    apply plugin: 'com.android.application'


android {
    compileSdkVersion 25
    buildToolsVersion "26.0.0"
    defaultConfig {
        applicationId "android.sellit"
        minSdkVersion 16
        targetSdkVersion 25
        versionCode 1
        versionName "1.0"
        testInstrumentationRunner "android.support.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
    }
    buildTypes {
        release {
            minifyEnabled false
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
        }
    }
}

dependencies {
    implementation fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    androidTestImplementation('com.android.support.test.espresso:espresso-core:2.2.2', {
        exclude group: 'com.android.support', module: 'support-annotations'
    })
    //noinspection GradleCompatible
    implementation 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:25.4.0'
    testImplementation 'junit:junit:4.12'
    implementation 'com.android.support.constraint:constraint-layout:1.0.2'
    implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-auth:10.2.4'

    // Required only if Facebook login support is required
    implementation('com.facebook.android:facebook-android-sdk:4.22.1')
    implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-core:10.2.4'
    implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-database:10.2.4'
    implementation 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-auth:10.2.4'
    implementation 'com.android.support:design:25.4.0'

    implementation 'com.github.bumptech.glide:glide:4.0.0-RC1'

    implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-storage:10.2.4'

    implementation 'de.hdodenhof:circleimageview:2.1.0'
    implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-crash:10.2.4'

    implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-ads:10.2.4'
}
apply plugin: 'com.google.gms.google-services'

Has anyone encountered a similar error or he knows what can I do?

Answer 1

It turns out that this is a weird bug in the Gradle itself. I posted it on google forum and one of their coders gave me a solution and also put it up as an issue with the gradle team.

For the solution, you can clear your project cache (C:\Users\<username>\.gradle\caches\transforms-1 ) and rebuild your project again and it will work fine. The gradle needs some artifacts to build which are stored in the cache memory. So if the gradle fails to build, the cache can be cleared which will prompt fresh downloading. You can be offline as long as all the artifacts you need have been downloaded in Gradle's cache (so don't delete the cache folder when offline!)

Answer 2

The error seems to be caused by corrupt Jetified files.

Delete ONLY the corrupted .jars from the error message from the Gradle caches folder:

rm ~/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/path-to/some-release.aar

The "path-to" will be probably be the package name e.g., com.example.somerelease

Usually I get the path of the file to delete from the error message itself and cut and paste it into the terminal in order to execute the rm command.

Deleting the entire folder is not an optimal solution as all the dependencies will need to be Jetified again. If you're already having corruption issues, you're likely to encounter the issue again as there is more work for Jetify when it has to reprocess the entire folder

Answer 3

Faced the same issue. The simple way to solve this is to switch between your build variants. This refreshes the cached copies and resolves the issue.

Answer 4

Received similar error:

Failed to transform file 'uat-release.jar' to match attributes {artifactType=android-classes} Transform output file D:\R\project\uat-release.jar does not exist.

In my case, Actual file was aar and bymistake I put .jar in build.gradle(of uat-release module)

  configurations.maybeCreate("default")
  artifacts.add("default", file('uat-release.jar'))

Solved it by correcting file type:

  configurations.maybeCreate("default")
  artifacts.add("default", file('uat-release.aar'))