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Error generating model classes Caused by IllegalArgumentException: modifiers [protected, abstract] must contain one of [public, private]

See original GitHub issue

Build failed with :

e: error: Epoxy Processor Exception: Error generating model classes Caused by IllegalArgumentException: modifiers [protected, abstract] must contain one of [public, private]       Stacktrace:   
  com.airbnb.epoxy.ModelBuilderInterfaceWriter.writeInterface(ModelBuilderInterfaceWriter.kt:57)
  com.airbnb.epoxy.GeneratedModelWriter.generateClassForModel(GeneratedModelWriter.kt:174)
  com.airbnb.epoxy.GeneratedModelWriter.generateClassForModel$default(GeneratedModelWriter.kt:134)
  com.airbnb.epoxy.ModelProcessor.writeModel(ModelProcessor.kt:85)    
  com.airbnb.epoxy.ModelProcessor.processModels(ModelProcessor.kt:69)     
  com.airbnb.epoxy.EpoxyProcessor.processRound(EpoxyProcessor.java:187) 
  com.airbnb.epoxy.EpoxyProcessor.process(EpoxyProcessor.java:165)

> Task :lib:kaptDebugKotlin FAILED

Creating this issue to add more information in the error message.

I am still not sure what is the cause, the change we made was to move some epoxy code from app module to a library module.

epoxyVersion = '3.3.0' gradle_android_version = '3.2.1'

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toshanmugarajcommented, Sep 2, 2021

ah, that’ll do it.

yes, I can try to include model information for where the exception happens. thanks for posting the context!

How to add model information to trace this error, I am now facing same error but no clue of the issue.

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eboudrantcommented, Mar 12, 2019

I will try to find the models, the error was not verbose enough to give the culprit (and we have a lot). It happen with no change except move the models from a app module to a lib module. May be a kapt flag missing in our new lib module…

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