error: An unhandled exception was thrown by the Error Prone static analysis plugin.

[ved-asole]

Got the below error while running Gradle project. Could someone look into the issue?

Please report this at https://github.com/google/error-prone/issues/new and include the following:

     error-prone version: 2.4.0
     BugPattern: Immutable
     Stack Trace:
     java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/sun/tools/javac/util/Filter
  	at com.google.errorprone.bugpatterns.threadsafety.ImmutableChecker.createImmutableAnalysis(ImmutableChecker.java:127)
  	at com.google.errorprone.bugpatterns.threadsafety.ImmutableChecker.matchClass(ImmutableChecker.java:167)
  	at com.google.errorprone.scanner.ErrorProneScanner.processMatchers(ErrorProneScanner.java:451)
  	at com.google.errorprone.scanner.ErrorProneScanner.visitClass(ErrorProneScanner.java:549)
  	at com.google.errorprone.scanner.ErrorProneScanner.visitClass(ErrorProneScanner.java:152)
  	at jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.tree.JCTree$JCClassDecl.accept(JCTree.java:860)
  	at jdk.compiler/com.sun.source.util.TreePathScanner.scan(TreePathScanner.java:86)
  	at com.google.errorprone.scanner.Scanner.scan(Scanner.java:74)
  	at com.google.errorprone.scanner.Scanner.scan(Scanner.java:48)
  	at jdk.compiler/com.sun.source.util.TreeScanner.scan(TreeScanner.java:111)
  	at jdk.compiler/com.sun.source.util.TreeScanner.scanAndReduce(TreeScanner.java:119)
  	at jdk.compiler/com.sun.source.util.TreeScanner.visitCompilationUnit(TreeScanner.java:152)
  	at com.google.errorprone.scanner.ErrorProneScanner.visitCompilationUnit(ErrorProneScanner.java:562)
  	at com.google.errorprone.scanner.ErrorProneScanner.visitCompilationUnit(ErrorProneScanner.java:152)
  	at jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.tree.JCTree$JCCompilationUnit.accept(JCTree.java:614)
  	at jdk.compiler/com.sun.source.util.TreePathScanner.scan(TreePathScanner.java:60)
  	at com.google.errorprone.scanner.Scanner.scan(Scanner.java:58)
  	at com.google.errorprone.scanner.ErrorProneScannerTransformer.apply(ErrorProneScannerTransformer.java:43)
  	at com.google.errorprone.ErrorProneAnalyzer.finished(ErrorProneAnalyzer.java:152)
  	at jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.api.MultiTaskListener.finished(MultiTaskListener.java:132)
  	at jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.main.JavaCompiler.flow(JavaCompiler.java:1394)
  	at jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.main.JavaCompiler.flow(JavaCompiler.java:1341)
  	at jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.main.JavaCompiler.compile(JavaCompiler.java:933)
  	at jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.api.JavacTaskImpl.lambda$doCall$0(JavacTaskImpl.java:104)
  	at jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.api.JavacTaskImpl.invocationHelper(JavacTaskImpl.java:152)
  	at jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.api.JavacTaskImpl.doCall(JavacTaskImpl.java:100)
  	at jdk.compiler/com.sun.tools.javac.api.JavacTaskImpl.call(JavacTaskImpl.java:94)
  	at org.gradle.internal.compiler.java.IncrementalCompileTask.call(IncrementalCompileTask.java:89)
  	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.compile.AnnotationProcessingCompileTask.call(AnnotationProcessingCompileTask.java:94)
  	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.compile.ResourceCleaningCompilationTask.call(ResourceCleaningCompilationTask.java:57)
  	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.compile.JdkJavaCompiler.execute(JdkJavaCompiler.java:54)
  	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.compile.JdkJavaCompiler.execute(JdkJavaCompiler.java:39)
  	at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.compile.daemon.AbstractDaemonCompiler$CompilerWorkAction.execute(AbstractDaemonCompiler.java:135)
  	at org.gradle.workers.internal.DefaultWorkerServer.execute(DefaultWorkerServer.java:63)
  	at org.gradle.workers.internal.AbstractClassLoaderWorker$1.create(AbstractClassLoaderWorker.java:49)
  	at org.gradle.workers.internal.AbstractClassLoaderWorker$1.create(AbstractClassLoaderWorker.java:43)
  	at org.gradle.internal.classloader.ClassLoaderUtils.executeInClassloader(ClassLoaderUtils.java:97)
  	at org.gradle.workers.internal.AbstractClassLoaderWorker.executeInClassLoader(AbstractClassLoaderWorker.java:43)
  	at org.gradle.workers.internal.FlatClassLoaderWorker.run(FlatClassLoaderWorker.java:32)
  	at org.gradle.workers.internal.FlatClassLoaderWorker.run(FlatClassLoaderWorker.java:22)
  	at org.gradle.workers.internal.WorkerDaemonServer.run(WorkerDaemonServer.java:85)
  	at org.gradle.workers.internal.WorkerDaemonServer.run(WorkerDaemonServer.java:55)
  	at org.gradle.process.internal.worker.request.WorkerAction$1.call(WorkerAction.java:138)
  	at org.gradle.process.internal.worker.child.WorkerLogEventListener.withWorkerLoggingProtocol(WorkerLogEventListener.java:41)
  	at org.gradle.process.internal.worker.request.WorkerAction.run(WorkerAction.java:135)
  	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
  	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:77)
  	at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
  	at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:568)
  	at org.gradle.internal.dispatch.ReflectionDispatch.dispatch(ReflectionDispatch.java:36)
  	at org.gradle.internal.dispatch.ReflectionDispatch.dispatch(ReflectionDispatch.java:24)
  	at org.gradle.internal.remote.internal.hub.MessageHubBackedObjectConnection$DispatchWrapper.dispatch(MessageHubBackedObjectConnection.java:182)
  	at org.gradle.internal.remote.internal.hub.MessageHubBackedObjectConnection$DispatchWrapper.dispatch(MessageHubBackedObjectConnection.java:164)
  	at org.gradle.internal.remote.internal.hub.MessageHub$Handler.run(MessageHub.java:414)
  	at org.gradle.internal.concurrent.ExecutorPolicy$CatchAndRecordFailures.onExecute(ExecutorPolicy.java:64)
  	at org.gradle.internal.concurrent.ManagedExecutorImpl$1.run(ManagedExecutorImpl.java:48)
  	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1136)
  	at java.base/java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:635)
  	at org.gradle.internal.concurrent.ThreadFactoryImpl$ManagedThreadRunnable.run(ThreadFactoryImpl.java:61)
  	at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:833)
  Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.sun.tools.javac.util.Filter
  	at java.base/java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:445)
  	at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:592)
  	at java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:525)

[cushon]

This is the same issue as #2926

Error Prone 2.4.0 is quite old, the crash is fixed in newer versions. Can you try upgrading?