DexingFileDependenciesTask.outputKeepRules is a directory but is marked as an OutputFile [266780231]

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Description

de...@squareup.com

created issue #1

Jan 26, 2023 05:20PM

DESCRIBE THE ISSUE IN DETAIL:

In AGP 7.4+, the outputKeepRules property in DexingFileDependenciesTask was changed from a RegularFileProperty to a DirectoryProperty (in this commit), however it is still marked as an OutputFile.

This causes a configuration error as gradle expects this property to be a file, but finds a directory instead. It should be marked with `OutputDirectory.

Configuration error:

org.gradle.internal.execution.WorkValidationException: A problem was found with the configuration of task ':app:desugarProductionReleaseFileDependencies' (type 'DexFileDependenciesTask').
  - In plugin 'com.android.internal.version-check' type 'com.android.build.gradle.internal.tasks.DexFileDependenciesTask' property 'outputKeepRules' is not writable because '[...]/app/build/intermediates/desugar_lib_external_file_lib_keep_rules/productionRelease' is not a file.
    
    Reason: Cannot write a file to a location pointing at a directory.
    
    Possible solutions:
      1. Configure 'outputKeepRules' to point to a file, not a directory.
      2. Annotate 'outputKeepRules' with @OutputDirectory instead of @OutputFiles.

This property appears to have been removed in AGP 8.1, but this issue still affects both AGP 7.4 and 8.0.

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Studio Build: --
Version of Gradle Plugin: 7.4, 8.0-beta02
Version of Gradle: 7.6
Version of Java: --
OS: --

Comments

hu...@google.com <hu...@google.com> Jan 26, 2023 06:46PM

Assigned to an...@google.com.

bi...@google.com <bi...@google.com> Jan 26, 2023 06:53PM

Accepted by bi...@google.com.

bi...@google.com <bi...@google.com> #2Jan 26, 2023 07:58PM

Bingran, can you please take a look?

From the stacktrace, it seems like the issue is triggered during the native model building (com.android.build.gradle.internal.ide.v2.NativeModelBuilder.buildAll(NativeModelBuilder.kt:104), and it seems like .kts build files are used (see prepareKotlinBuildScriptModel task running).

Nick, does using:

Android Studio: 2021.3.1 Canary 7
AGP: 7.1.2
Gradle: 7.2

also fail?

de...@squareup.com <de...@squareup.com> #3Jan 26, 2023 08:14PM

I can't seem to reproduce the error now, but that may be due to project changes, or perhaps cache invalidation etc fixed it. However, given the error, perhaps there is still a bug there.

I only use build.gradle files, not kts, so any kotlin build files would be internal. However, the app uses Kotlin.

Gradle 7.2 worked with AGP 7.1.2, just 7.4 that had the problem.

bi...@google.com <bi...@google.com> #4Feb 2, 2023 01:10AM

The error is thrown when analytics is queried in NativeModelBuilder but AnalyticsService doesn't seem to have been configured which is the reason why we get "no value available" error from AnalyticsService.reconstructProfileBuilder(AnalyticsService.kt:199. Is is not obvious why AnalyticsService is not configured in a sync build. Due to it cannot be reproduced consistently, I think we should downgrade the priority and upgrade it when we see similar issues.

bi...@google.com <bi...@google.com> #5Feb 2, 2023 07:13PM

Marked as fixed.

I am running into this error again. Gradle 7.4 or 7.3.3, AGP 7.2.0, AS Dolphin | 2021.3.1 Beta 1. What can I try to resolve it?

eb...@netflix.com <eb...@netflix.com> #6Feb 16, 2023 09:40PM

Does it happen consistently? like every time you open the project?