Can't use local annotation processor in Android kotlin project - android-gradle-plugin

Question

I have an AS3 / gradle plugin 3 project where we recently introduced a local simple annotation processor. Works fine with gradles annotationProcessor dependancy directive.
I started adding Kotlin code and moved all annotationProcessor directives to kapt ones. Glide and logan-square use annotation processors with Kotlin without a problem, but our local AP project can't be executed by kapt:
:app:kaptGenerateStubsDebugKotlin
Using Kotlin incremental compilation
e: java.util.ServiceConfigurationError: javax.annotation.processing.Processor: Error reading configuration file
at java.util.ServiceLoader.fail(ServiceLoader.java:232)
at java.util.ServiceLoader.parse(ServiceLoader.java:309)
at java.util.ServiceLoader.access$200(ServiceLoader.java:185)
at java.util.ServiceLoader$LazyIterator.hasNextService(ServiceLoader.java:357)
at java.util.ServiceLoader$LazyIterator.hasNext(ServiceLoader.java:393)
at java.util.ServiceLoader$1.hasNext(ServiceLoader.java:474)
at kotlin.collections.CollectionsKt___CollectionsKt.toCollection(_Collections.kt:1042)
at kotlin.collections.CollectionsKt___CollectionsKt.toMutableList(_Collections.kt:1075)
at kotlin.collections.CollectionsKt___CollectionsKt.toList(_Collections.kt:1066)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.kapt3.ClasspathBasedKapt3Extension.loadProcessors(Kapt3Extension.kt:92)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.kapt3.AbstractKapt3Extension.analysisCompleted(Kapt3Extension.kt:160)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.kapt3.ClasspathBasedKapt3Extension.analysisCompleted(Kapt3Extension.kt:82)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.cli.jvm.compiler.TopDownAnalyzerFacadeForJVM$analyzeFilesWithJavaIntegration$2.invoke(TopDownAnalyzerFacadeForJVM.kt:96)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.cli.jvm.compiler.TopDownAnalyzerFacadeForJVM.analyzeFilesWithJavaIntegration(TopDownAnalyzerFacadeForJVM.kt:106)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.cli.jvm.compiler.TopDownAnalyzerFacadeForJVM.analyzeFilesWithJavaIntegration$default(TopDownAnalyzerFacadeForJVM.kt:83)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.cli.jvm.compiler.KotlinToJVMBytecodeCompiler$analyze$1.invoke(KotlinToJVMBytecodeCompiler.kt:377)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.cli.jvm.compiler.KotlinToJVMBytecodeCompiler$analyze$1.invoke(KotlinToJVMBytecodeCompiler.kt:68)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.cli.common.messages.AnalyzerWithCompilerReport.analyzeAndReport(AnalyzerWithCompilerReport.kt:96)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.cli.jvm.compiler.KotlinToJVMBytecodeCompiler.analyze(KotlinToJVMBytecodeCompiler.kt:368)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.cli.jvm.compiler.KotlinToJVMBytecodeCompiler.compileModules(KotlinToJVMBytecodeCompiler.kt:133)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.cli.jvm.K2JVMCompiler.doExecute(K2JVMCompiler.kt:154)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.cli.jvm.K2JVMCompiler.doExecute(K2JVMCompiler.kt:58)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.cli.common.CLICompiler.execImpl(CLICompiler.java:103)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.cli.common.CLICompiler.execImpl(CLICompiler.java:51)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.cli.common.CLITool.exec(CLITool.kt:92)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.incremental.IncrementalJvmCompilerRunner.runCompiler(IncrementalJvmCompilerRunner.kt:303)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.incremental.IncrementalJvmCompilerRunner.runCompiler(IncrementalJvmCompilerRunner.kt:85)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.incremental.IncrementalCompilerRunner.compileIncrementally(IncrementalCompilerRunner.kt:213)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.incremental.IncrementalCompilerRunner.access$compileIncrementally(IncrementalCompilerRunner.kt:37)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.incremental.IncrementalCompilerRunner$compile$2.invoke(IncrementalCompilerRunner.kt:74)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.incremental.IncrementalCompilerRunner.compile(IncrementalCompilerRunner.kt:87)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.daemon.CompileServiceImpl.execIncrementalCompiler(CompileServiceImpl.kt:512)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.daemon.CompileServiceImpl.access$execIncrementalCompiler(CompileServiceImpl.kt:96)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.daemon.CompileServiceImpl$compile$$inlined$ifAlive$lambda$2.invoke(CompileServiceImpl.kt:399)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.daemon.CompileServiceImpl$compile$$inlined$ifAlive$lambda$2.invoke(CompileServiceImpl.kt:96)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.daemon.CompileServiceImpl$doCompile$$inlined$ifAlive$lambda$2.invoke(CompileServiceImpl.kt:889)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.daemon.CompileServiceImpl$doCompile$$inlined$ifAlive$lambda$2.invoke(CompileServiceImpl.kt:96)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.daemon.common.DummyProfiler.withMeasure(PerfUtils.kt:137)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.daemon.CompileServiceImpl.checkedCompile(CompileServiceImpl.kt:916)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.daemon.CompileServiceImpl.doCompile(CompileServiceImpl.kt:888)
at org.jetbrains.kotlin.daemon.CompileServiceImpl.compile(CompileServiceImpl.kt:398)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor87.invoke(Unknown Source)
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.io.FileNotFoundException: JAR entry META-INF/services/javax.annotation.processing.Processor not found in /Users/kread/git/bgo/myrmecophaga-2.0/ejecta-v8/v8annotations-compiler/build/libs/v8annotations-compiler.jar
at sun.net.www.protocol.jar.JarURLConnection.connect(JarURLConnection.java:144)
at sun.net.www.protocol.jar.JarURLConnection.getInputStream(JarURLConnection.java:152)
at java.net.URL.openStream(URL.java:1045)
at java.util.ServiceLoader.parse(ServiceLoader.java:304)
... 55 more
:app:kaptGenerateStubsDebugKotlin FAILED
The created JAR file has the necessary META-INF JAR entry though:
# jar tf /Users/kread/git/bgo/myrmecophaga-2.0/ejecta-v8/v8annotations-compiler/build/libs/v8annotations-compiler.jar
META-INF/
META-INF/MANIFEST.MF
ag/
ag/boersego/
ag/boersego/v8annotations/
ag/boersego/v8annotations/compiler/
ag/boersego/v8annotations/compiler/V8AnnotationProcessor$1.class
ag/boersego/v8annotations/compiler/V8AnnotationProcessor$AccessorTuple.class
ag/boersego/v8annotations/compiler/V8AnnotationProcessor$AnnotationHolder.class
ag/boersego/v8annotations/compiler/V8AnnotationProcessor.class
META-INF/services/
META-INF/services/javax.annotation.processing.Processor
Excerpt from main module build.gradle:
dependencies {
// gazillions of compile / api / ...
api project(':ejecta-v8:v8annotations')
kapt project(':ejecta-v8:v8annotations-compiler')
}
Module v8annotations build.gradle:
apply plugin: 'java-library'
sourceCompatibility = 1.8
targetCompatibility = 1.8
dependencies {}
Module v8annotations-compiler build.gradle:
apply plugin: 'java'
sourceCompatibility = 1.8
targetCompatibility = 1.8
dependencies {
compile project(':ejecta-v8:v8annotations')
compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
}
I'm stumped :(

Answer 1

I had similar issues several times. I tried a combination of
pkill gradle
pkill java
and deleting the android studio setup of .idea/workspace.xml and the *.iml files. It appeared to be a cached state which resulted in this issue.

Answer 2

In my case it was enough to run
gradlew --stop
from AndroidStudio console

Answer 3

It works for me
pkill gradle
clean project
make project