Could not find com.github.jknack.handlebars.java:handlebars:4.1.2

[brinkkemper]

When using handlebars in an Android project using recent versions of gradle and the buildtools

• gradle 3.2.1
• buildtools 28.0.3

There is an error when compiling: Could not find com.github.jknack.handlebars.java:handlebars:4.1.2

Our build-pipeline at Bitrise is even throwing this error while we don't specifiy gradle to use these recent versions.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:lintVitalHousingQaRelease'.
> Could not resolve all artifacts for configuration ':app:housingMockDebugRuntimeClasspath'.
   > Could not find com.github.jknack.handlebars.java:handlebars:4.1.0.
     Searched in the following locations:
         file:/opt/android-sdk-linux/extras/m2repository/com/github/jknack/handlebars/java/handlebars/4.1.0/handlebars-4.1.0.pom
         file:/opt/android-sdk-linux/extras/m2repository/com/github/jknack/handlebars/java/handlebars/4.1.0/handlebars-4.1.0.jar
         file:/opt/android-sdk-linux/extras/google/m2repository/com/github/jknack/handlebars/java/handlebars/4.1.0/handlebars-4.1.0.pom
         file:/opt/android-sdk-linux/extras/google/m2repository/com/github/jknack/handlebars/java/handlebars/4.1.0/handlebars-4.1.0.jar
         file:/opt/android-sdk-linux/extras/android/m2repository/com/github/jknack/handlebars/java/handlebars/4.1.0/handlebars-4.1.0.pom
         file:/opt/android-sdk-linux/extras/android/m2repository/com/github/jknack/handlebars/java/handlebars/4.1.0/handlebars-4.1.0.jar
         file:/bitrise/src/app/libs/handlebars-4.1.0.jar
         file:/bitrise/src/app/libs/handlebars.jar
         http://dl.bintray.com/populov/maven/com/github/jknack/handlebars/java/handlebars/4.1.0/handlebars-4.1.0.pom
         http://dl.bintray.com/populov/maven/com/github/jknack/handlebars/java/handlebars/4.1.0/handlebars-4.1.0.jar
         https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/com/github/jknack/handlebars/java/handlebars/4.1.0/handlebars-4.1.0.pom
         https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/com/github/jknack/handlebars/java/handlebars/4.1.0/handlebars-4.1.0.jar
         https://maven.fabric.io/public/com/github/jknack/handlebars/java/handlebars/4.1.0/handlebars-4.1.0.pom
         https://maven.fabric.io/public/com/github/jknack/handlebars/java/handlebars/4.1.0/handlebars-4.1.0.jar
         https://jitpack.io/com/github/jknack/handlebars/java/handlebars/4.1.0/handlebars-4.1.0.pom
         https://jitpack.io/com/github/jknack/handlebars/java/handlebars/4.1.0/handlebars-4.1.0.jar
         https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/com/github/jknack/handlebars/java/handlebars/4.1.0/handlebars-4.1.0.pom
         https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/com/github/jknack/handlebars/java/handlebars/4.1.0/handlebars-4.1.0.jar
         https://jcenter.bintray.com/com/github/jknack/handlebars/java/handlebars/4.1.0/handlebars-4.1.0.pom
         https://jcenter.bintray.com/com/github/jknack/handlebars/java/handlebars/4.1.0/handlebars-4.1.0.jar
     Required by:
         project :app > com.github.jknack:handlebars:4.1.0

(error is the same with v4.1.2)

I checked on https://jcenter.bintray.com/com/github/jknack/handlebars/ where gradle is searching for the folder java, and not finding it. I found https://jcenter.bintray.com/com/github/jknack/handlebars.java/ but gradle is not looking here :(

I'm kind of stuck trying solve this issue. Any idea what is going on?

It seems gradle is looking for handlebars/java while it should look for handlebars.java

[TWiStErRob]

We had the same happen without changing anything (except clearing Gradle caches).

Gradle: 5.6.2 AGP: 3.5.0

We found a workaround:

androidTestImplementation("com.github.tomakehurst:wiremock:${wiremock_version}") {
    // Flakey build issue where there is no gradle cache:
    // Error: Could not find com.github.jknack.handlebars.java:handlebars:4.0.7
    // These dependencies shouldn't be part of the configuration, because it's not declared in the pom.xml,
    // but somehow Gradle puts it in anyway.
    exclude group: 'com.github.jknack.handlebars.java'
}

Note that com/github/jknack/handlebars.java is the root project's POM only, which is correct. But it's easy to be confused with non-existent group ID com.github.jknack.handlebars.java.