AA KaptException with kotlin 1.4

Author: ghostCreated Oct 20, 2020Updated Nov 18, 2020

This is a template, please adjust it accordingly to your specific issue.
You may also want to read our issue guide.

I am using the latest kotlin version and build plugin version, but kaptRelease task seems to fail due to the error below. Is there anything i can do to prevent this from happening? Or should i use an older version?

AndroidAnnotations version: 4.7.0

Android compile SDK version: 29

Annotated code:

java

your code

Expected generated code:

java

expected generated code

Actual generated code:

java

actual generated code

Stacktrace in case of AA crash:

Caused by: org.jetbrains.kotlin.kapt3.base.util.KaptBaseError: Exception while annotation processing
	at org.jetbrains.kotlin.kapt3.base.AnnotationProcessingKt.doAnnotationProcessing(annotationProcessing.kt:83)
	at org.jetbrains.kotlin.kapt3.base.AnnotationProcessingKt.doAnnotationProcessing$default(annotationProcessing.kt:34)
	at org.jetbrains.kotlin.kapt3.base.Kapt.kapt(Kapt.kt:45)
	... 25 more
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.androidannotations.logger.appender.FileAppender.open(FileAppender.java:53)
	at org.androidannotations.logger.LoggerContext.setEnvironment(LoggerContext.java:85)
	at org.androidannotations.internal.AndroidAnnotationProcessor.init(AndroidAnnotationProcessor.java:84)
	at org.jetbrains.kotlin.kapt3.base.incremental.IncrementalProcessor.init(incrementalProcessors.kt:33)
	at org.jetbrains.kotlin.kapt3.base.ProcessorWrapper.init(annotationProcessing.kt:170)
	at com.sun.tools.javac.processing.JavacProcessingEnvironment$ProcessorState.<init>(JavacProcessingEnvironment.java:500)
	at com.sun.tools.javac.processing.JavacProcessingEnvironment$DiscoveredProcessors$ProcessorStateIterator.next(JavacProcessingEnvironment.java:597)
	at com.sun.tools.javac.processing.JavacProcessingEnvironment.discoverAndRunProcs(JavacProcessingEnvironment.java:690)
	at com.sun.tools.javac.processing.JavacProcessingEnvironment.access$1800(JavacProcessingEnvironment.java:91)
	at com.sun.tools.javac.processing.JavacProcessingEnvironment$Round.run(JavacProcessingEnvironment.java:1035)
	at com.sun.tools.javac.processing.JavacProcessingEnvironment.doProcessing(JavacProcessingEnvironment.java:1176)
	at com.sun.tools.javac.main.JavaCompiler.processAnnotations(JavaCompiler.java:1170)
	at com.sun.tools.javac.main.JavaCompiler.processAnnotations(JavaCompiler.java:1068)
	at org.jetbrains.kotlin.kapt3.base.AnnotationProcessingKt.doAnnotationProcessing(annotationProcessing.kt:78)
	... 27 more

Source: androidannotations/androidannotations

View original on GitHub View discussion on GitHub