"Could not initialize class" error running lint target from gradle

Question

I'm working on an Android project with two projects inside it. When trying to run a build with gradlew (./gradlew build), I see the following error:

Execution failed for task ':example:lint'.

Could not initialize class com.android.build.gradle.tasks.Lint$LintGradleIssueRegistry

With stacktrace enabled, this is listed as a java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError.

Oddly, the first time I ran this (which downloaded dependencies), the build failed with a different error:

Execution failed for task ':example:lint'.

lombok/ast/Node

The gradle wrapper that Android SDK created for the project is using Gradle 2.8.

Could this be a configuration issue with the project or my dev machine? I'm trying to avoid using the Android SDK lint tool as this complains about the projects using Gradle (and I hear it may miss some parts of these projects).

As an update, I see the same error(s) with Gradle 2.11.

Tom Elliott
– Tom Elliott

2016-02-23 16:45:02 +00:00
Commented Feb 23, 2016 at 16:45 — Tom Elliott
– Tom Elliott, Commented Feb 23, 2016 at 16:45

Tom Elliott · Accepted Answer · 2016-02-23 17:18:26Z

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Turned out this was a configuration issue in our build.gradle. The following line had been added for testing and never removed:

configurations.classpath.exclude group: 'com.android.tools.external.lombok'

As such, the classes needed for linting were missing.

The following discussion pointed us in the right direction, in case it's useful to anyone else:

https://github.com/evant/gradle-retrolambda/issues/96

answered Feb 23, 2016 at 17:18

Tom Elliott

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