A failure occurred while executing org.jetbrains.kotlin.gradle.internal.KaptExecution > java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException (no error message)

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Android studio gave the error:

Execution failed for task ':app:kaptDebugKotlin'.
> A failure occurred while executing org.jetbrains.kotlin.gradle.internal.KaptExecution
   > java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException (no error message)

I want to add in my project Kotlin Coroutines and use it with Room database. But after added all libraries I got this error. This is all information from the compiler.

I have identified, This is because of the annotation @Database. If I removed this annotation, the error don't appear, but Room is not working too.

My gradle file:

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'
apply plugin: 'kotlin-android'
apply plugin: 'kotlin-android-extensions'
apply plugin: 'kotlin-kapt'
//apply plugin: 'androidx.navigation.safeargs'

kotlin {
    experimental {
        coroutines 'enable'
    }
}

android {
    compileSdkVersion 29
    defaultConfig {
        applicationId "com.bestcred.coursetthree"
        minSdkVersion 21
        targetSdkVersion 29
        versionCode 1
        versionName "1.0"

        testInstrumentationRunner "androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
        //vectorDrawables.useSupportLibrary = true
    }
    buildTypes {
        release {
            minifyEnabled false
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
        }
    }

    // Enables data binding.
    buildFeatures {
        dataBinding true
    }
}

dependencies {


    implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk7:$kotlin_version"

    // Support libraries
    implementation "androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.2.0"
    implementation 'com.google.android.material:material:1.2.0'
    implementation "androidx.fragment:fragment:1.2.5"
    implementation "androidx.constraintlayout:constraintlayout:2.0.0"

    // Android KTX
    implementation 'androidx.core:core-ktx:1.3.1'

    // Room and Lifecycle dependencies
    implementation "androidx.room:room-runtime:$room_version"
    implementation 'androidx.legacy:legacy-support-v4:1.0.0'
    kapt "android.arch.persistence.room:compiler:$room_version"

    // Kotlin Extensions and Coroutines support for Room
    implementation "androidx.room:room-ktx:$room_version"

    // Coroutines
    implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-coroutines-core:$coroutine_version"
    implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlinx:kotlinx-coroutines-android:$coroutine_version"

}

kotlin_version = "1.4.0"
room_version = "2.2.5"
coroutine_version = '1.3.9'

I update Room version and add Kotlin Coroutines. What's problem?

Solution 1

You need change:

kapt "android.arch.persistence.room:compiler:$room_version"

to

kapt "androidx.room:room-compiler:$room_version"

Solution 2

Android Studio's UI was just hiding the error...

when the error occurred, it highlighted the item in the list view, and showed an unhelpful message in the terminal view.

to find the real error, select the root item in the list view so that Android Studio would display the whole build output in the terminal view, then scroll to find error.

Solution 3

I develop in Apple Silicon Macbook M1.

use room_version 2.2.4, fails in 2.2.5

def room_version = "2.2.4"

implementation "androidx.room:room-runtime:$room_version"
kapt "androidx.room:room-compiler:$room_version"
implementation "androidx.room:room-ktx:$room_version"
testImplementation "androidx.room:room-testing:$room_version"

Solution 4

This exception occurs when you have done some mistake on Room database or Doa or entity class for example I had done mistakes in the entity class

1. I had made the autogenerated field of Entity class val instead of var
2. I had put delete annotation on two functions with a different name but they were deleting the same data

so I would suggest to check the entity,dao or database class carefully if you imported the right dependency.

@Entity(tableName = "user_table")
data class User(
    val firstName: String,
    val lastName: String,
    val age: Int
) {
    @PrimaryKey(autoGenerate = true)
    var id: Int = 0 //**do not made it val**
}

Solution 5

I'm currently having this error on m1 Mac with Room version 2.3.0.

I fixed it by changing it to 2.4.0-alpha04.

This has been reported to Google (issue tracker).

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Comments

[aspro]

Worked for me. Nothing else did.

[Jorge Alejandro Puñales]

This Answer is valid too for this kind of error. I have an error in a foreign key name, and fixed it solve the problem. Thanks

[mobibob]

Ahhh ... I ran into this before but did not recall the solution. For me to resolve the prior time, I had to setup the command-line build and searched the output. THIS IS MUCH EASIER and more direct!!! Bonus points for you and get a special badge. BTW - my issue is related to @Transaction functions in my Dao object after upgrading the compiler and frameworks (probably room).

[Alvin Dizon]

In my case I don't see a list on the left hand side like in your screenshot @Eric

[Nicolás Carrasco-Stevenson]

I'm also using an M1 and this solved my problem

[John Doe]

In Android Studio go to Settings (Alt+Ctrl+S) ➡ Build, Execution, Deployment ➡ Build Tools and select the correct Gradle JDK version.

[Qazi Fahim Farhan]

android studio is using java 11, that is ok. but you see, we are working on an android library. The library should be published using github packages. Last time when I had checked, all the tutorials were using the terminal. So in my usecase, I had to build and publish using terminal. That's why I faced the trouble.

[AnD]

you save my day. Thanks!

[vitkuzmenko]

2.3.0 on M1 also fails. 2.2.4 works fine. It fixed in 2.4.0-alpha03

[Demigod]

In my case the error wasn't shown when root item was selected... Doing ./gradlew clean build from the terminal showed the error

[NightFury]

Life saver. Thank you!

[Astrit Veliu]

Awesome, thank you!

[user924]

it's not always the case. I selected build failed but it also doesn't contain anything

[Nouman Baig]

Where and what file you have deleted?

[Adnan Bal]

To the Mac M1 users : this is the right solution for you.

[Sebastien FERRAND]

That was my issue. Saved my life

[Sanjayrajsinh]

on which tag we need to add this ?

[lomec]

And the other way around for me it was 11 and 8 needed. Thanks for the tip

[Prabs]

Auto generated files @NoumanBaig

[CoolMind]

Thanks, @JohnDoe! I changed Java from 11 to 15 in settings.

[CoolMind]

How is that possible? It will be a compile error.