Android lint warning: Obsolete custom lint check with message, "Library lint checks reference invalid APIs" [368070326]

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as...@trstinc.ca

created issue #1

Sep 19, 2024 06:00AM

Component used: Navigation Version used: 2.8.1

After updating to version 2.8.1, Android lint is throwing the Obsolete custom link check warning below. We have configured Android lint to treat warnings as errors so this is breaking our CI pipeline runs; ideally, we'd like to continue using the latest version of this component while also continuing to treat warnings as errors. Thank you for your help.

Obsolete custom lint check
C\Users\Name\.gradle\caches\8.10.1\transforms\9f862a1cbcbe5db7aa5be720d18ee6a9\transformed\navigation-common-2.8.1\jars\lint.jar: Library lint checks reference invalid APIs; these checks will be skipped!

Lint found an issue registry (androidx.navigation.common.lint.NavigationCommonIssueRegistry)
which contains some references to invalid API:
com.android.tools.lint.checks.infrastructure.TestFiles: com.android.tools.lint.checks.infrastructure.TestFile bytecode(java.lang.String,com.android.tools.lint.checks.infrastructure.TestFile,long,java.lang.String[])
(Referenced from androidx/navigation/lint/common/LintUtilKt.class)

Therefore, this lint check library is not included
in analysis. This affects the following lint checks:
EmptyNavDeepLink,WrongStartDestinationType

To use this lint check, upgrade to a more recent version
of the library.
C\Users\Name\.gradle\caches\8.10.1\transforms\9dfa426b3ae3dd25c59450f3d3e12ca1\transformed\navigation-compose-2.8.1\jars\lint.jar: Library lint checks reference invalid APIs; these checks will be skipped!

Lint found an issue registry (androidx.navigation.compose.lint.NavigationComposeIssueRegistry)
which contains some references to invalid API:
com.android.tools.lint.checks.infrastructure.TestFiles: com.android.tools.lint.checks.infrastructure.TestFile bytecode(java.lang.String,com.android.tools.lint.checks.infrastructure.TestFile,long,java.lang.String[])
(Referenced from androidx/navigation/lint/common/LintUtilKt.class)

Therefore, this lint check library is not included
in analysis. This affects the following lint checks:
ComposableDestinationInComposeScope,ComposableNavGraphInComposeScope,UnrememberedGetBackStackEntry,WrongStartDestinationType

To use this lint check, upgrade to a more recent version
of the library.
C\Users\Name\.gradle\caches\8.10.1\transforms\ad519d283ef46a4f034327148abd3b70\transformed\navigation-runtime-2.8.1\jars\lint.jar: Library lint checks reference invalid APIs; these checks will be skipped!

Lint found an issue registry (androidx.navigation.runtime.lint.NavigationRuntimeIssueRegistry)
which contains some references to invalid API:
com.android.tools.lint.checks.infrastructure.TestFiles: com.android.tools.lint.checks.infrastructure.TestFile bytecode(java.lang.String,com.android.tools.lint.checks.infrastructure.TestFile,long,java.lang.String[])
(Referenced from androidx/navigation/lint/common/LintUtilKt.class)

Therefore, this lint check library is not included
in analysis. This affects the following lint checks:
DeepLinkInActivityDestination,WrongStartDestinationType,WrongNavigateRouteType

To use this lint check, upgrade to a more recent version

Comments

jo...@marks-and-spencer.com <jo...@marks-and-spencer.com> #2Sep 19, 2024 08:45AM

Hello, we've also run into this for the same reason (we have warnings as errors enabled).

We've had a look at the issue and found that com.android.tools.lint.checks.infrastructure.TestFiles lives inside the lint-tests library.

We've found that this library is used by navigation-lint-common which is used by navigation-runtime-lint.

Why do I think this is causing this issue?

lint-tests is a compileOnly dependency to navigation-lint-common in this commit.

navigation-runtime-lint bundles navigation-lint-common here (has lint-tests as a compile time dependency). It also adds lint-tests as an testImplementation here. This leads to the file TestFiles being present on the test classpath but not the release classpath. Leading to the Obselete Custom Lint check warning.

Hopefully this is some useful information for whoever looks into this!

jb...@google.com <jb...@google.com> Sep 19, 2024 03:50PM

Assigned to cl...@google.com.

n....@gmail.com <n....@gmail.com> #3Sep 20, 2024 09:23AM

I have the same here.

Android Studio Koala Feature Drop | 2024.1.2

Gradle: gradle-8.7-bin

Libs versions:

androidGradlePlugin = "8.6.1"
androidxLifecycle = "2.8.6"
androidxNavigation = "2.8.1"
androidxRoom = "2.6.1"
androidxWork = "2.9.1"
androidxHilt = "1.2.0"
dagger = "2.52"
crashliticsPlugin = "3.0.2"
googleServicesPlugin = "4.4.2"
kotlin = "2.0.20"
ksp = "2.0.20-1.0.25"
kotlinxCoroutines = "1.9.0"

My error is:

Lint found errors in the project; aborting build.

Fix the issues identified by lint, or add the issues to the lint baseline via `gradlew updateLintBaseline`.
For more details, see https://developer.android.com/studio/write/lint#snapshot

Lint found 2 errors, 0 warnings (30 errors filtered by baseline lint-baseline.xml). First failure:

D:\Projects\test-app-temp\caches\transforms-4\aa9719de05282520df33006e0c57afb4\transformed\navigation-common-2.8.1\jars\lint.jar: Error: Library lint checks reference invalid APIs; these checks will be skipped!


The full lint text report is located at:
  D:\Projects\project-name\app\build\intermediates\lint_intermediate_text_report\release\lintReportRelease\lint-results-release.txt

jb...@google.com <jb...@google.com> #4Oct 11, 2024 12:27AM

Marked as fixed.

This has been fixed internally and will be available in Navigation 2.8.3 for all AGP versions < 8.7. This lint with 8.7 now presents a different error and that will be track in https://issuetracker.google.com/371926651.

Issue 368070326