ADFA-5126: Keep volatile build metadata out of module ABIs - #1671
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:build-info sits at the root of the dependency graph and five of its generated fields change from build to build. All were `public static final String`, which javac records in the ConstantValue attribute and inlines into every consumer, so their values were part of the module's ABI. Every build therefore changed that ABI and recompiled all 30 Kotlin modules -- even a build with no source change at all. `common`'s `const val BASIC_INFO` inlined the version string too and propagated the churn a second time. Three changes, all following from one invariant: a value that changes between builds must never be a compile-time constant. - The volatile fields route through `volatileValue()`, a non-constant initialiser, so no ConstantValue is emitted and the values leave the ABI. Stable fields keep their constant form. `BASIC_INFO` becomes a non-const `@JvmField val` -- the compiler enforces this, since a `const val` requires a constant initialiser. - `simpleVersionName` derives its timestamp from the commit being built rather than the wall clock, fixed to UTC. Previously any two builds a minute apart produced a different version string, so the churn fired off CI as well. Format and ordering are unchanged. - `:build-info`'s jar is reproducible. Required, not cosmetic: with the timestamp fixed the generated source is byte-identical between rebuilds but the jar was not, because Gradle embeds per-entry timestamps, and kapt tracks that jar by bytes through `internalNonAbiClasspath` rather than by ABI. Verified locally: PACKAGE_NAME keeps `ConstantValue`, VERSION_NAME_SIMPLE and CI_GIT_COMMIT_HASH no longer have one and are assigned in <clinit>; build-info.jar is byte-identical across `--rerun-tasks` rebuilds; a no-change rebuild of `:app:compileV8DebugKotlin` executes no compile task at all.
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`@composite-builds/build-logic/common/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/build/config/CI.kt`:
- Around line 86-97: Update the timestamp resolution around the Git exec
provider to inspect ExecOutput.result and distinguish command failure, missing
output, and non-numeric parsing before falling back to
System.currentTimeMillis(). Log the Git failure and resulting loss of
reproducibility whenever the fallback is used, while preserving the existing
parsed timestamp path.
In `@docs/adr/0012-volatile-build-metadata-out-of-abis.md`:
- Around line 33-37: Add the text language identifier to the fenced output block
containing the Kotlin task lines, changing only that fence and preserving its
contents.
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app/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/utils/BuildInfoUtils.ktbuild-info/build.gradle.ktsbuild-info/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/buildinfo/BuildInfo.java.incommon/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/utils/BuildInfoUtils.ktcomposite-builds/build-logic/common/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/build/config/CI.ktcomposite-builds/build-logic/common/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/build/config/ProjectConfig.ktdocs/adr/0012-volatile-build-metadata-out-of-abis.mddocs/adr/README.mddocs/process/build-ci-glossary.md
| runCatching { | ||
| project.providers | ||
| .exec { spec -> | ||
| spec.workingDir(project.rootProject.projectDir) | ||
| spec.commandLine("git", "show", "-s", "--format=%ct", sha) | ||
| spec.isIgnoreExitValue = true | ||
| }.standardOutput.asText | ||
| .get() | ||
| .trim() | ||
| }.getOrNull() | ||
| ?.toLongOrNull() | ||
| ?: (System.currentTimeMillis() / 1000L) |
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🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
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#!/bin/bash
set -eu
file='composite-builds/build-logic/common/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/build/config/CI.kt'
printf '%s\n' '--- target file outline ---'
ast-grep outline "$file" 2>/dev/null || true
printf '%s\n' '--- target lines ---'
sed -n '1,150p' "$file"
printf '%s\n' '--- logging and timestamp usages ---'
rg -n -C 3 'commitEpochSeconds|System\.currentTimeMillis|LoggerFactory|logger\.' composite-builds/build-logic app build-logic 2>/dev/null || trueRepository: appdevforall/CodeOnTheGo
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#!/bin/bash
set -eu
file='composite-builds/build-logic/common/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/build/config/CI.kt'
printf '%s\n' '--- file size and imports ---'
wc -l "$file"
sed -n '1,115p' "$file"
printf '%s\n' '--- exact target context ---'
sed -n '70,105p' "$file"
printf '%s\n' '--- references in build logic ---'
rg -n -C 4 --glob '*.kt' --glob '*.java' 'commitEpochSeconds|CI\.' composite-builds/build-logic
printf '%s\n' '--- logger conventions in build logic ---'
rg -n -C 2 --glob '*.kt' --glob '*.java' 'LoggerFactory|org\.gradle\.api\.logging|logger\.(warn|error)' composite-builds/build-logicRepository: appdevforall/CodeOnTheGo
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#!/bin/bash
set -eu
printf '%s\n' '--- version metadata call site ---'
sed -n '55,145p' composite-builds/build-logic/common/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/build/config/ProjectConfig.kt
printf '%s\n' '--- Gradle API references and declared Gradle version ---'
rg -n -C 3 'ProviderFactory\.exec|ExecOutput|isIgnoreExitValue|gradleVersion|distributionUrl' \
--glob '*.kt' --glob '*.java' --glob '*.gradle' --glob '*.gradle.kts' \
gradle composite-builds build.gradle.kts settings.gradle.kts 2>/dev/null || true
printf '%s\n' '--- deterministic fallback model ---'
python3 - <<'PY'
from time import time
def commit_epoch(stdout, execution_error=False):
if execution_error:
value = None
else:
value = stdout.strip()
try:
value = int(value)
except (TypeError, ValueError):
value = None
return value if value is not None else int(time())
for stdout, error in [("1700000000\n", False), ("", False), ("fatal: bad revision\n", False)]:
first = commit_epoch(stdout, error)
second = commit_epoch(stdout, error)
print(repr(stdout), "execution_error=" + str(error), "values=", first, second,
"same=" + str(first == second))
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Gradle ProviderFactory.exec ExecOutput isIgnoreExitValue standardOutput asText non-zero exit behavior
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In Gradle's ProviderFactory.exec API, the behavior of ExecOutput.standardOutput.asText.get()—or any attempt to access the output provider—is inherently tied to the process execution status [1][2]. If a process finishes with a non-zero exit code, calling .get() on the output provider will fail by default, throwing an exception [1]. This occurs because Gradle considers a non-zero exit code a process failure, and the provider cannot successfully resolve the output if the process itself is deemed to have failed [1]. To change this behavior and allow access to the output even when a process returns a non-zero exit code, you must explicitly configure the process to ignore the exit value [1]. This is done using the isIgnoreExitValue property within the exec configuration block [3][1]: providers.exec { commandLine("your-command") isIgnoreExitValue = true } Once isIgnoreExitValue is set to true, the process will not throw an exception on a non-zero exit code [3][1]. You can then safely call .get() on the output provider to retrieve the process's standard output [1]. If you also need to handle or inspect the exit code itself, you can access it via ExecOutput.result [1]: val execOutput = providers.exec { commandLine("your-command") isIgnoreExitValue = true } val output = execOutput.standardOutput.asText.get val exitCode = execOutput.result.get.exitValue Note that providers.exec is designed for lazy, configuration-time execution where Gradle captures the output as a build input [4][2]. Because it is lazy, the process will not execute until you call .get() on one of the ExecOutput providers (like standardOutput, standardError, or result) [2][5].
Citations:
- 1: Confusing failure when setting up standard streams for Providers.exec and javaexec gradle/gradle#33858
- 2: Using Gradle 8.11 Project.exec/javaexec are deprecated, but ProviderFactory.exec/javaexec work differently. gradle/gradle#30822
- 3: https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/master/platforms/core-configuration/model-core/src/main/java/org/gradle/api/internal/provider/sources/process/ProcessOutputValueSource.java
- 4: https://docs.gradle.org/current/dsl/org.gradle.api.provider.ProviderFactory.html
- 5: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/79720795/replacing-deprecated-projectexec-in-dofirst-dolast
Log the non-reproducible fallback.
When Git fails, returns no numeric timestamp, or parsing fails, this code silently uses System.currentTimeMillis(). With isIgnoreExitValue = true, inspect ExecOutput.result because a non-zero exit does not throw. Log the Git failure and the loss of reproducibility before applying the fallback.
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In
`@composite-builds/build-logic/common/src/main/java/com/itsaky/androidide/build/config/CI.kt`
around lines 86 - 97, Update the timestamp resolution around the Git exec
provider to inspect ExecOutput.result and distinguish command failure, missing
output, and non-numeric parsing before falling back to
System.currentTimeMillis(). Log the Git failure and resulting loss of
reproducibility whenever the fallback is used, while preserving the existing
parsed timestamp path.
Source: Coding guidelines
| ``` | ||
| 30 compileV8DebugKotlin <- every Kotlin module in the project | ||
| 12 kaptGenerateStubsV8DebugKotlin | ||
| 11 kaptV8DebugKotlin | ||
| ``` |
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Add a language identifier to the fenced output block.
The fence at Line 33 has no language identifier. This triggers MD040 in the supplied static analysis output. Use text for this task-output block.
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[warning] 33-33: Fenced code blocks should have a language specified
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In `@docs/adr/0012-volatile-build-metadata-out-of-abis.md` around lines 33 - 37,
Add the text language identifier to the fenced output block containing the
Kotlin task lines, changing only that fence and preserving its contents.
Source: Linters/SAST tools
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Jira: ADFA-5126
The problem
A build in which nothing changed recompiled the entire project: 30
compileV8DebugKotlin, 12kaptGenerateStubsV8DebugKotlin, 11kaptV8DebugKotlin, 8compileV8DebugJavaWithJavac. The same signature shows up on the CI runners.:build-infosits at the root of the dependency graph, and five of its generated fields change from build to build:All were
public static final String. javac records those in theConstantValueattribute and inlines them into every consumer, so a constant's value is part of the declaring module's ABI. Every build changed:build-info's ABI, so every dependent module had to recompile.common'sconst val BASIC_INFOinlined the version string too and propagated the churn a second time.Three of the five derive from the wall clock, so this fired on any two builds a minute apart even of an identical commit - which is why it reproduced locally, not just on CI.
The change
One invariant: a value that changes between builds must never be a compile-time constant.
volatileValue(), a non-constant initialiser, so noConstantValueis emitted and the values leave the ABI. Stable fields (package name, repo coordinates, AGP versions, F-Droid flags) keep their constant form.BASIC_INFObecomes a non-const@JvmField valin both:commonand:app. Not optional - a Kotlinconst valrequires a constant initialiser, so the compiler enforces the invariant from here on.simpleVersionNamederives its timestamp from the commit being built rather than the wall clock, fixed to UTC (otherwise the version would be a function of the builder's timezone as well as the commit). Format and ordering are unchanged, so nothing product-visible moves.:build-info's jar is reproducible (preserveFileTimestamps = false,reproducibleFileOrder = true). Required, not cosmetic: with the timestamp fixed the generated source is byte-identical between rebuilds but the jar still was not, because Gradle embeds per-entry timestamps - and kapt tracks that jar by bytes throughinternalNonAbiClasspath, not by ABI, so the ABI fix alone cannot reach it.Rationale, alternatives and consequences: ADR 0012. Vocabulary the ADR uses (ABI churn, build graph health): docs/process/build-ci-glossary.md.
Result
Blast radius now tracks the change, measured with a scripted-scenario harness on a warm workspace:
Local wall clock for those scenarios fell 60-68%. Task counts are the number that transfers to the runners; local wall clock does not.
Verification
PACKAGE_NAMEkeepsConstantValue: String com.itsaky.androidide;VERSION_NAME_SIMPLEandCI_GIT_COMMIT_HASHhave noConstantValueand are assigned in<clinit>(javap -v).build-info.jaris byte-identical across two:build-info:jar --rerun-tasksrebuilds.C-d-0813-1509against a committer timestamp of2026-08-13T15:09:46Z, not the 16:06 wall clock at build time.:build-info:jar :app:compileV8DebugKotlinexecutes no compile task (10 of 1118 tasks execute; all are manifest/jar-copy tasks with no declared outputs).spotlessApplyclean;:build-info:jar,:common:compileV8DebugKotlin,:app:compileV8DebugKotlinall succeed.Known limits
:build-info:generateBuildInfostill executes every build - it declares no outputs. Harmless now that its output is byte-stable, but it is why the task list is not empty on a no-change rebuild..git),commitEpochSecondsfalls back to the wall clock. Determinism is lost in that case, but the build succeeds rather than failing.whenbranch constants). No current call site needs that.