Kotlin room database crash on kotlin 1.2.40 version

Question

after upgrading to kotlin 1.2.40 I have the following error at build:

e: [kapt] An exception occurred: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/jetbrains/kotlin/serialization/jvm/JvmProtoBufUtil
at me.eugeniomarletti.kotlin.metadata.KotlinClassMetadata$data$2.invoke(KotlinMetadata.kt:51)
at me.eugeniomarletti.kotlin.metadata.KotlinClassMetadata$data$2.invoke(KotlinMetadata.kt:50)
at kotlin.SynchronizedLazyImpl.getValue(Lazy.kt:131)
at me.eugeniomarletti.kotlin.metadata.KotlinClassMetadata.getData(KotlinMetadata.kt)
at android.arch.persistence.room.ext.KotlinMetadataProcessor$DefaultImpls.getParameterNames(KotlinMetadataProcessor.kt:33)
at android.arch.persistence.room.processor.PojoProcessor.getParameterNames(PojoProcessor.kt:73)
at android.arch.persistence.room.processor.PojoProcessor.getParamNames(PojoProcessor.kt:245)
at android.arch.persistence.room.processor.PojoProcessor.chooseConstructor(PojoProcessor.kt:263)
at android.arch.persistence.room.processor.PojoProcessor.doProcess(PojoProcessor.kt:207)
at android.arch.persistence.room.processor.PojoProcessor.access$doProcess(PojoProcessor.kt:73)
at android.arch.persistence.room.processor.PojoProcessor$process$1.invoke(PojoProcessor.kt:104)
at android.arch.persistence.room.processor.PojoProcessor$process$1.invoke(PojoProcessor.kt:73)
at android.arch.persistence.room.processor.cache.Cache$Bucket.get(Cache.kt:46)
at android.arch.persistence.room.processor.PojoProcessor.process(PojoProcessor.kt:101)
at android.arch.persistence.room.processor.EntityProcessor.doProcess(EntityProcessor.kt:68)
at android.arch.persistence.room.processor.EntityProcessor.access$doProcess(EntityProcessor.kt:50)
at android.arch.persistence.room.processor.EntityProcessor$process$1.invoke(EntityProcessor.kt:57)
at android.arch.persistence.room.processor.EntityProcessor$process$1.invoke(EntityProcessor.kt:50)
at android.arch.persistence.room.processor.cache.Cache$Bucket.get(Cache.kt:46)
at android.arch.persistence.room.processor.EntityProcessor.process(EntityProcessor.kt:56)
at android.arch.persistence.room.processor.DatabaseProcessor.processEntities(DatabaseProcessor.kt:248)
at android.arch.persistence.room.processor.DatabaseProcessor.doProcess(DatabaseProcessor.kt:63)
at android.arch.persistence.room.processor.DatabaseProcessor.process(DatabaseProcessor.kt:53)
at android.arch.persistence.room.RoomProcessor$DatabaseProcessingStep.process(RoomProcessor.kt:57)
at com.google.auto.common.BasicAnnotationProcessor.process(BasicAnnotationProcessor.java:318)
at com.google.auto.common.BasicAnnotationProcessor.process(BasicAnnotationProcessor.java:171)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.kapt3.ProcessorWrapper.process(annotationProcessing.kt:131)
at com.sun.tools.javac.processing.JavacProcessingEnvironment.callProcessor(JavacProcessingEnvironment.java:794)
at com.sun.tools.javac.processing.JavacProcessingEnvironment.discoverAndRunProcs(JavacProcessingEnvironment.java:705)
at com.sun.tools.javac.processing.JavacProcessingEnvironment.access$1800(JavacProcessingEnvironment.java:91)
at com.sun.tools.javac.processing.JavacProcessingEnvironment$Round.run(JavacProcessingEnvironment.java:1039)
at com.sun.tools.javac.processing.JavacProcessingEnvironment.doProcessing(JavacProcessingEnvironment.java:1180)
at com.sun.tools.javac.main.JavaCompiler.processAnnotations(JavaCompiler.java:1170)
at com.sun.tools.javac.main.JavaCompiler.processAnnotations(JavaCompiler.java:1068)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.kapt3.AnnotationProcessingKt.doAnnotationProcessing(annotationProcessing.kt:87)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.kapt3.AnnotationProcessingKt.doAnnotationProcessing$default(annotationProcessing.kt:45)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.kapt3.AbstractKapt3Extension.runAnnotationProcessing(Kapt3Extension.kt:257)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.kapt3.AbstractKapt3Extension.analysisCompleted(Kapt3Extension.kt:212)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.kapt3.ClasspathBasedKapt3Extension.analysisCompleted(Kapt3Extension.kt:95)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.cli.jvm.compiler.TopDownAnalyzerFacadeForJVM$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:107)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.cli.common.CLICompiler.execImpl(CLICompiler.java:51)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.cli.common.CLITool.exec(CLITool.kt:96)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.daemon.CompileServiceImpl$compile$1$1$2.invoke(CompileServiceImpl.kt:405)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.daemon.CompileServiceImpl$compile$1$1$2.invoke(CompileServiceImpl.kt:98)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.daemon.CompileServiceImpl$doCompile$$inlined$ifAlive$lambda$2.invoke(CompileServiceImpl.kt:920)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.daemon.CompileServiceImpl$doCompile$$inlined$ifAlive$lambda$2.invoke(CompileServiceImpl.kt:98)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.daemon.common.DummyProfiler.withMeasure(PerfUtils.kt:137)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.daemon.CompileServiceImpl.checkedCompile(CompileServiceImpl.kt:950)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.daemon.CompileServiceImpl.doCompile(CompileServiceImpl.kt:919)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.daemon.CompileServiceImpl.compile(CompileServiceImpl.kt:404)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:62)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
at sun.rmi.server.UnicastServerRef.dispatch(UnicastServerRef.java:346)
at sun.rmi.transport.Transport$1.run(Transport.java:200)
at sun.rmi.transport.Transport$1.run(Transport.java:197)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at sun.rmi.transport.Transport.serviceCall(Transport.java:196)
at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport.handleMessages(TCPTransport.java:568)
at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run0(TCPTransport.java:826)
at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.lambda$run$0(TCPTransport.java:683)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run(TCPTransport.java:682)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.jetbrains.kotlin.serialization.jvm.JvmProtoBufUtil
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:381)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
... 77 more

After I changed to version 1.2.30 in my build-gradle the build worked, but now I have a mismatch between the version used by gradle (1.2.30) and the one bundled into the IDE plugin (1.2.40).

Is there anything I am doing wrong with the new kotlin version ? Or how can I downgrade to the 1.2.30 version ?

Thank you for the attention.

Answer 1

You can downgrade by downloading a plugin zip corresponding to your android studio version here: http://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/6954-kotlin

And use Settings | Plugins | Install plugin from disk and select the downloaded zip file.

Answer 2

The problem is that they've introduced a binary incompatibility in compiler-embeddable in Kotlin 1.2.40. There're a few options right now:

1. Downgrade Kotlin to the 1.2.30

2. Use the latest Kotlin version with the stable Room version (1.1.0). Then you must substitute the kotlin-compiler-embeddable dependency (see below).

3. Use the latest Kotlin version with the latest Room version (1.1.0-rc1). They've fix bug in RC1.

I'd use the 3d way and keep an eye on the Room's releases. But if you choose the 2nd one then you must insert this in your root build.gradle:

subprojects {
    configurations.all {
        resolutionStrategy {
            eachDependency {
                if (requested.name == "kotlin-compiler-embeddable") {
                    useVersion("1.2.30")
                }
            }
        }
    }
}