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Thank you for the nice reproduction. The problem is in the library that defines a service loader implementation file incorrectly. The file META-INF/services/org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserFactory contains:

org.kxml2.io.KXmlParser,org.kxml2.io.KXmlSerializer

The spec clearly states that it should be one per line: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/ServiceLoader.html

A service provider is identified by placing a provider-configuration file in the resource directory META-INF/services. The file's name is the fully-qualified binary name of the service's type. The file contains a list of fully-qualified binary names of concrete provider classes, one per line...

R8 also gives a warning regarding that:

Warning in /usr/local/google/home/mkroghj/dumps/b279996549/dump/program.jar:META-INF/services/org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserFactory:
Unexpected reference to missing service implementation class in META-INF/services/org.xmlpull.v1.XmlPullParserFactory: org.kxml2.io.KXmlParser,org.kxml2.io.KXmlSerializer.

The reason the context is FastServiceLoader.load is because that is where we enqueue the potential services that can be loaded. I guess this could try and figure out the concrete types that could be loaded instead of all types, but that is difficult since the method takes a class as argument.

R8 will read the type in the implementation as a type with name org.kxml2.io.KXmlParser,org.kxml2.io.KXmlSerializer. You therefore, in principle, need to write -dontwarn org.kxml2.io.KXmlParser,org.kxml2.io.KXmlSerializer. Now the problem here is that -dontwarn takes a list of classes as argument, so we parse that into something similar to:

-dontwarn org.kxml2.io.KXmlParser
-dontwarn org.kxml2.io.KXmlSerializer

The only thing you can write is a prefix, so you could do -dontwarn org.kxml2.io.KXml* and that will silence the compiler and succeed.

Regarding the library, I checked if the error was still present, but the service file was corrected over 3 years ago: https://github.com/kobjects/kxml2/commit/de05dd4abfcec52ff564f0cdb01bd86d67dc5ceb

You could see if an update of the library you are using is available or use the -dontwarn pattern above. Will be marking this as WAI.

I have tried above pattern but that also fail

-dontwarn org.kxml2.io.KXml*

Can you please confirm from sample file with corrected pattern and working solution ?