Decoder crashes

[lemachi]

Information

1. Apktool Version (apktool -version) - 2.2.0
2. Operating System (Mac, Linux, Windows) - Mac
3. APK From? (Playstore, ROM, Other) - local build

Stacktrace/Logcat

java.lang.IllegalAccessError: class brut.androlib.meta.StringExRepresent$RepresentStringEx cannot access its superclass org.yaml.snakeyaml.representer.SafeRepresenter$RepresentString
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:763)
    at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:142)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:467)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:73)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:368)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:362)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:361)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:424)
    at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:331)
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357)
    at brut.androlib.meta.StringExRepresent.<init>(StringExRepresent.java:23)
    at brut.androlib.meta.MetaInfo.getYaml(MetaInfo.java:44)
    at brut.androlib.meta.MetaInfo.save(MetaInfo.java:54)
    at brut.androlib.meta.MetaInfo.save(MetaInfo.java:63)
    at brut.androlib.Androlib.writeMetaFile(Androlib.java:245)
    at brut.androlib.ApkDecoder.writeMetaFile(ApkDecoder.java:305)
    at brut.androlib.ApkDecoder.decode(ApkDecoder.java:162)
    at brut.androlib.ApkDecoder$decode$2.call(Unknown Source)

Steps to Reproduce

import org.junit.Test
import brut.androlib.ApkDecoder;

class ApkToolsTest {

    @Test
    void testExplode() {
        File outDir = new File("exploded-apk");

        File file = new File("test.apk");
        println file.length();
        ApkDecoder decoder = new ApkDecoder();
        decoder.setApkFile(file);
        decoder.setOutDir(outDir);
        decoder.setDecodeSources((short)0);
        decoder.setForceDelete(true);
        decoder.decode();
    }

}

Frameworks

If this APK is from an OEM ROM (Samsung, HTC, LG). Please attach framework files
(.apks that live in /system/framework or /system/priv-app)

APK

If this APK can be freely shared, please upload/attach a link to it.

Private, sorry

Questions to ask before submission

1. Have you tried apktool d, apktool b without changing anything?
2. If you are trying to install a modified apk, did you resign it?
3. Are you using the latest apktool version?

This works on 2.0.1 but breaks on 2.2.0.
Any ideas would be appreciated.

Cheers, Michael

[iBotPeaches]

I believe IllegalAccessError come from having multiple classes with different permissions. This may come from a discrepancy in class paths where multiple versions of the same class come into play, thus one version has a private method, etc.

I don't duplicate this at all on 2.2.0. Are you building apktool 2.2.0 into some bundled application or are you using it directly?

[lemachi]

I'm using ApkTool in Gradle. If I'm wrapping it into an Exec task which spawns a new process it works jut fine, but using the class directly fails after the upgrade to 2.2.0.

[iBotPeaches]

PRs are accepted if you can track this down. I won't have time for a bit to setup a test case of running the apktool class directly through Gradle in a test format.

Too much has changed between 2.0.1 -> 2.0.2 -> 2.0.3 -> 2.1.0 -> 2.1.1 -> 2.2.0, but my guess based on the stack trace is this commit is involved - https://github.com/iBotPeaches/Apktool/pull/1128/files

[iBotPeaches]

Apktool hasn't explored a true library behavior yet. Tossed into roadmap to explore this - 46a4a25