upgrading reac-native from November 4th 2022 and build with firbase error

[amirali-pishdadi]

After upgrading from 0.68.0 to 0.68.5 I am now getting similar transform errors for react-native firebase dependencies when using react-native run-android.
build sucessful
gradle 7.3.3

`Error: Command failed: gradlew.bat app:installDebug -PreactNativeDevServerPort=8081

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• What went wrong:
  Execution failed for task ':app:checkDebugAarMetadata'.

Could not resolve all files for configuration ':app:debugRuntimeClasspath'.
Failed to transform firebase-messaging-23.0.8.aar (com.google.firebase:firebase-messaging:23.0.8) to match attributes {artifactType=android-aar-metadata, org.gradle.category=library, org.gradle.libraryelements=jar, org.gradle.status=release, org.gradle.usage=java-runtime}.
> Could not find firebase-messaging-23.0.8.aar (com.google.firebase:firebase-messaging:23.0.8).
Searched in the following locations:
https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/com/google/firebase/firebase-messaging/23.0.8/firebase-messaging-23.0.8.aar
Failed to transform firebase-datatransport-18.1.6.aar (com.google.firebase:firebase-datatransport:18.1.6) to match attributes {artifactType=android-aar-metadata, org.gradle.status=release}.
> Could not find firebase-datatransport-18.1.6.aar (com.google.firebase:firebase-datatransport:18.1.6).
Searched in the following locations:
https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/com/google/firebase/firebase-datatransport/18.1.6/firebase-datatransport-18.1.6.aar
Failed to transform transport-backend-cct-3.1.7.aar (com.google.android.datatransport:transport-backend-cct:3.1.7) to match attributes {artifactType=android-aar-metadata, org.gradle.status=release}.
> Could not find transport-backend-cct-3.1.7.aar (com.google.android.datatransport:transport-backend-cct:3.1.7).
Searched in the following locations:
https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/com/google/android/datatransport/transport-backend-cct/3.1.7/transport-backend-cct-3.1.7.aar
Failed to transform transport-backend-cct-3.1.7.aar (com.google.android.datatransport:transport-backend-cct:3.1.7) to match attributes {artifactType=android-aar-metadata, org.gradle.status=release}.
> Could not find transport-backend-cct-3.1.7.aar (com.google.android.datatransport:transport-backend-cct:3.1.7).
Searched in the following locations:
https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/com/google/android/datatransport/transport-backend-cct/3.1.7/transport-backend-cct-3.1.7.aar
Failed to transform transport-runtime-3.1.7.aar (com.google.android.datatransport:transport-runtime:3.1.7) to match attributes {artifactType=android-aar-metadata, org.gradle.status=release}.
> Could not find transport-runtime-3.1.7.aar (com.google.android.datatransport:transport-runtime:3.1.7).
Searched in the following locations:
https://dl.google.com/dl/android/maven2/com/google/android/datatransport/transport-runtime/3.1.7/transport-runtime-3.1.7.aar
Failed to transform transport-runtime-3.1.7.aar (com.google.android.datatransport:transport-runtime:3.1.7) to match attributes {artifactType=android-aar-metadata, org.gradle.status=release}.`

buildToolsVersion = "31.0.0"
    minSdkVersion = 21
    compileSdkVersion = 31
    targetSdkVersion = 31
    ndkVersion = "21.4.7075529"
    useMapLibre = true
    useCustomMapbox = false

` repositories {
google()
mavenCentral()
jcenter()

}
dependencies {
    classpath("com.android.tools.build:gradle:7.0.4")
    classpath 'com.google.gms:google-services:4.3.10'
    classpath("com.facebook.react:react-native-gradle-plugin")
    classpath("de.undercouch:gradle-download-task:4.1.2")
    // NOTE: Do not place your application dependencies here; they belong
    // in the individual module build.gradle files
}

}

allprojects {

repositories {
    google()
    jcenter()
    mavenLocal()
    maven {
        // All of React Native (JS, Obj-C sources, Android binaries) is installed from npm
        url("$rootDir/../node_modules/react-native/android")
    }
    maven {
        // Android JSC is installed from npm
        url("$rootDir/../node_modules/jsc-android/dist")
    }
    mavenCentral {
        // We don't want to fetch react-native from Maven Central as there are
        // older versions over there.
        content {
            excludeGroup "com.facebook.react"
        }
    }
    `

[mikehardy]

This appears to be some networking error.

The error message clearly states: could not find ...... and if you'll notice the links in this message are actually clickable. So your build system cannot resolve those URLs and get the artifacts but we may click them here

I click one of them and it works fine.

That indicates to me that it is a networking issue in your network path from your build system to the maven repository, and that is not something we control here as module maintainers.

The build works for me and your specific artifacts resolve fine for me

[jafarpishdadi]

You can resolve this problem by forcing the React Native dependency to the version you expect with something like this implementation 'com.facebook.react:react-native:0.68.5!!' in your app's Gradle file. The !! is shorthand for restricting Gradle from upgrading if transitive dependencies depend on a newer version.

configurations.all {
resolutionStrategy {
force 'com.facebook.react:react-native:0.68.5'
}
}

[amirali-pishdadi]

Thanks - It Worked for Me @jafarpishdadi 🙏

[mikehardy]

Just a note that the solution of using a hard-coded version is not the recommended solution.
The recommended solution is to use an exclusive content filter at the top level. I worked with the react-native release team over the weekend and it is definitely the preferred solution assuming you have gradle 6.2+ (which you will, if you are using react-native 0.68)

facebook/react-native#35210