Firestore exception caused by "No interface method getBuffer()Lokio/Buffer" due to other google libraries with conflicting okttp dependency

[fanwgwg]

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[REQUIRED] Step 2: Describe your environment

• Android Studio version: Android Studio Giraffe | 2022.3.1
• Firebase Component: Firestore
• Component version: com.google.firebase:firebase-bom:32.2.0

[REQUIRED] Step 3: Describe the problem

Steps to reproduce:

All firestore apis fail with the same exception:

om.google.firebase.firestore.FirebaseFirestoreException: INTERNAL: error in frame handler
                                                                                                    	at com.google.firebase.firestore.util.Util.exceptionFromStatus(Util.java:113)
                                                                                                    	at com.google.firebase.firestore.remote.FirestoreChannel.exceptionFromStatus(FirestoreChannel.java:283)
                                                                                                    	at com.google.firebase.firestore.remote.FirestoreChannel.access$100(FirestoreChannel.java:43)
                                                                                                    	at com.google.firebase.firestore.remote.FirestoreChannel$4.onClose(FirestoreChannel.java:257)
                                                                                                    	at io.grpc.internal.ClientCallImpl.closeObserver(ClientCallImpl.java:576)
                                                                                                    	at io.grpc.internal.ClientCallImpl.access$300(ClientCallImpl.java:70)
                                                                                                    	at io.grpc.internal.ClientCallImpl$ClientStreamListenerImpl$1StreamClosed.runInternal(ClientCallImpl.java:757)
                                                                                                    	at io.grpc.internal.ClientCallImpl$ClientStreamListenerImpl$1StreamClosed.runInContext(ClientCallImpl.java:736)
                                                                                                    	at io.grpc.internal.ContextRunnable.run(ContextRunnable.java:37)
                                                                                                    	at io.grpc.internal.SerializingExecutor.run(SerializingExecutor.java:133)
                                                                                                    	at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:462)
                                                                                                    	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
                                                                                                    	at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:301)
                                                                                                    	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1167)
                                                                                                    	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:641)
                                                                                                    	at com.google.firebase.firestore.util.AsyncQueue$SynchronizedShutdownAwareExecutor$DelayedStartFactory.run(AsyncQueue.java:235)
                                                                                                    	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:930)
                                                                                                    Caused by: io.grpc.StatusException: INTERNAL: error in frame handler
                                                                                                    	at io.grpc.Status.asException(Status.java:547)
                                                                                                    	at com.google.firebase.firestore.util.Util.exceptionFromStatus(Util.java:111)
                                                                                                    	at com.google.firebase.firestore.remote.FirestoreChannel.exceptionFromStatus(FirestoreChannel.java:283) 
                                                                                                    	at com.google.firebase.firestore.remote.FirestoreChannel.access$100(FirestoreChannel.java:43) 
                                                                                                    	at com.google.firebase.firestore.remote.FirestoreChannel$4.onClose(FirestoreChannel.java:257) 
                                                                                                    	at io.grpc.internal.ClientCallImpl.closeObserver(ClientCallImpl.java:576) 
                                                                                                    	at io.grpc.internal.ClientCallImpl.access$300(ClientCallImpl.java:70) 
                                                                                                    	at io.grpc.internal.ClientCallImpl$ClientStreamListenerImpl$1StreamClosed.runInternal(ClientCallImpl.java:757) 
                                                                                                    	at io.grpc.internal.ClientCallImpl$ClientStreamListenerImpl$1StreamClosed.runInContext(ClientCallImpl.java:736) 
                                                                                                    	at io.grpc.internal.ContextRunnable.run(ContextRunnable.java:37) 
                                                                                                    	at io.grpc.internal.SerializingExecutor.run(SerializingExecutor.java:133) 
                                                                                                    	at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:462) 
                                                                                                    	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) 
                                                                                                    	at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:301) 
                                                                                                    	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1167) 
                                                                                                    	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:641) 
                                                                                                    	at com.google.firebase.firestore.util.AsyncQueue$SynchronizedShutdownAwareExecutor$DelayedStartFactory.run(AsyncQueue.java:235) 
                                                                                                    	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:930) 
                                                                                                    Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: No interface method getBuffer()Lokio/Buffer; in class Lokio/BufferedSource; or its super classes (declaration of 'okio.BufferedSource' appears in /data/app/~~FBLMoCxuVEnktdEDnuSYpQ==/com.yygg.note.app.dev-K7nzI_hDVL1y0Cz3sHEDLA==/base.apk!classes9.dex)
                                                                                                    	at io.grpc.okhttp.OkHttpClientTransport$ClientFrameHandler.data(OkHttpClientTransport.java:1146)
                                                                                                    	at io.grpc.okhttp.internal.framed.Http2$Reader.readData(Http2.java:236)
                                                                                                    	at io.grpc.okhttp.internal.framed.Http2$Reader.nextFrame(Http2.java:148)
                                                                                                    	at io.grpc.okhttp.OkHttpClientTransport$ClientFrameHandler.run(OkHttpClientTransport.java:1105)
                                                                                                    	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1167)
                                                                                                    	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:641)
                                                                                                    	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:930) 

I'm seeing a similar issue at firebase/flutterfire#8501.

This exception doesn't happen on all devices, however, it's often reproducible on certain devices (e.g., some Huawei and Xiaomi devices). I've tried the same on one Samsung device, but it's never been reproducible.

[argzdev]

Hi @fanwgwg, thanks for reaching out. In order for us to address this issue, could you share with us steps how to reproduce this behavior? And if possible, could you share some code snippets or minimal reproducible example? It'll really help us investigate this further.

[fanwgwg]

@argzdev Thanks for the quick response. However I don't think this issue is caused by how the firestore api is used, but more of a dependency issue, as all firestore apis will fail with the same exception.

I've found out something related to the okhttp library, this issue seems reproducible when depending on both firestore (via firebase bom) and Google's MLKit library implementation 'com.google.mlkit:digital-ink-recognition:18.1.0'.

However, the issue can be resolved if we add another dependency on the latest version of okhttp implementation 'com.squareup.okhttp3:okhttp:4.11.0'

[argzdev]

I can't seem to reproduce this behavior with adding the implementation 'com.google.mlkit:digital-ink-recognition:18.1.0'. Since this is a NoSuchMethodError error, is it not possible that this might be due to the build process being faulty(?) Maybe you could try cleaning and rebuilding your app to see if this fixes the issue.

I've tried creating a clean project with the following dependencies, but they seem to work just alright:

    implementation platform('com.google.firebase:firebase-bom:32.2.0')
    implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-crashlytics'
    implementation 'com.google.firebase:firebase-firestore-ktx'
    implementation 'com.google.mlkit:digital-ink-recognition:18.1.0'

Not sure what I'm missing here, does the app immediately crash after startup? Or is there any particular code that has to be ran. Could you share any code snippets or minimal reproducible example? Thanks!

[fanwgwg]

@argzdev Unfortunately our team has tried to reproduce this issue on multiple workstations and it's been consistently reproducible, the same error keeps showing whenever we do a query that requires connection to server (query that returns result from cache will not have any error).

For example, an aggregation query will 100% fail after adding the com.google.mlkit:digital-ink-recognition:18.1.0 dependency.

Also, other than the error reported above, we're also seeing another exception of the same error when listening to document changes

(24.7.0) [WatchStream]: (2486ab5) Stream closed with status: Status{code=INTERNAL, description=error in frame handler, cause=java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: No interface method getBuffer()Lokio/Buffer; in class Lokio/BufferedSource; or its super classes (declaration of 'okio.BufferedSource' appears in /data/app/~~bCTMLb8px_0Xr0e-qVdchQ==/com.yygg.note.app.dev-YQYWRRezxpw0LVjtm_jePA==/base.apk!classes9.dex)
                                                                                                    	at io.grpc.okhttp.OkHttpClientTransport$ClientFrameHandler.data(OkHttpClientTransport.java:1146)
                                                                                                    	at io.grpc.okhttp.internal.framed.Http2$Reader.readData(Http2.java:236)
                                                                                                    	at io.grpc.okhttp.internal.framed.Http2$Reader.nextFrame(Http2.java:148)
                                                                                                    	at io.grpc.okhttp.OkHttpClientTransport$ClientFrameHandler.run(OkHttpClientTransport.java:1105)
                                                                                                    	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1137)
                                                                                                    	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:637)
                                                                                                    	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1012)
                                                     
                                             }.

When analyzing gradle dependencies, we're seeing a conflict on okhttp as shown below (our build.gradle currently does not have any direct dependency on okhttp library), which is due to com.google.mlkit:digital-ink-recognition:18.1.0 depending on okhttp 3.12.1, as can be seen from https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/com.google.mlkit/digital-ink-recognition/18.1.0

[argzdev]

Hi @fanwgwg, I was able to reproduce the same behavior. I've notified our engineers, and they're taking a look into it. Thanks!