[Question] How to configure androidannotations with Jack? #1853

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1. WonderCsabo commented on Sep 21, 2016

   

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   android-apt is not obsolete, becasuse the Jack toolchain is still experimental and disabled by default.

   However you use it with AA. It is described here how to enable annotation processing with Jack.

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2. optisamit commented on Sep 21, 2016

   

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   @WonderCsabo Thanks for your reply, but I still can't do it. Could you help me please?
   I've added Jack, commented out every occurrence of apt and replaced apt dependencies with annotationProcessor. And then, if I try gradle syncing, I get this error:

   Error:Could not get unknown property 'classpath' for task ':app:transformJackWithJackForDebug' of type com.android.build.gradle.internal.pipeline.TransformTask.

   Could it be a bug on Jack's side?
3. WonderCsabo commented on Sep 21, 2016

   

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   Yes, that error is coming from the Gradle build, AA is not even called at that point.
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5. niusounds commented on Sep 30, 2016

   

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   In Gradle 2.2, AA works with only these codes:

   dependencies {
       annotationProcessor 'org.androidannotations:androidannotations:4.1.0'
       compile 'org.androidannotations:androidannotations-api:4.1.0'
   }
   

   android-apt and classpath 'com.neenbedankt.gradle.plugins:android-apt:1.+' are not needed.

   https://github.com/excilys/androidannotations/wiki/Building-Project-Gradle needs to be updated.
6. WonderCsabo commented on Sep 30, 2016

   

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   AFAIK the Jack toolchain is still experimental, we will add support and documentation when it will be stable.
7. solgems commented on Nov 3, 2016

   

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   any updates on this?

   even without using JACK, we can do:

   annotationProcessor "org.androidannotations:androidannotations:4.1.0"
   compile "org.androidannotations:androidannotations-api:4.1.0"
   

   instead of

   apt "org.androidannotations:androidannotations:4.1.0"
   compile "org.androidannotations:androidannotations-api:4.1.0"
   

   but how do we pass the path of the manifest file to the new annotation processor?

   apt {
       arguments {
           androidManifestFile variant.outputs[0]?.processResources?.manifestFile
           resourcePackageName android.defaultConfig.applicationId
       }
   }
   

   from http://tools.android.com/tech-docs/jackandjill we can do something like the following below:
   but how do we handle all the different variants like the trick above (documented by https://bitbucket.org/hvisser/android-apt) ??

   android {
   ...
       defaultConfig {
       ...
           javaCompileOptions { 
               annotationProcessorOptions {
                   className 'com.example.MyProcessor'
   
           // Arguments are optional.
                   arguments = [ foo : 'bar' ]
               }
           }
       }
       ...
   }
   
8. WonderCsabo commented on Nov 3, 2016

   

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   We still not support Jack, as it is experimental and has lots of bugs.

   You cannot add per-variant annotation processing options with the new DSL, i reported this issue to Google a while ago. However, you can have an ugly workaround, as can be seen in the issue description:

   android.applicationVariants.all { variant ->
     variant.variantData.variantConfiguration.javaCompileOptions.annotationProcessorOptions.arguments =
       ['androidManifestFile': variant.outputs[0]?.processResources?.manifestFile?.absolutePath]
   }
9. solgems commented on Nov 3, 2016

   

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   cool, thanks for highlighting the ticket! 👍