Apparently Android Gradle Plugin has a bundled Dok...

# android

[Lukasz Kalnik]

Apparently Android Gradle Plugin has a bundled Dokka version, which cannot be overridden with a newer one in a project and leads to javaDocReleaseGeneration failing with java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: PermittedSubclasses requires ASM9.
What is the reason for this bundling of Dokka in AGP?
Here the error stack trace
See also discussion in the #dokka channel

[kenkyee]

I'd guess it's to support javadoc in an AAR lib?
I think it's a weird thing to include in AGP too...

[Lukasz Kalnik]

Probably.

[Lukasz Kalnik]

The problem is, if you anyway configure Dokka yourself in the project, then it just gets in the way.

[kenkyee]

+1...weird thing to do. I'd rather devs do it manually...

[kenkyee]

It's also probably worth filing a bug in b.android.com to ask that it be removed...

[Lukasz Kalnik]

I already filed a bug in Google's Issuetracker (under Android Studio, because it told me I have no permission to file a bug for AGP), but now apparently I also have no permission to view the bug ticket I created 🤣