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Untraceable fatal Exception caused by java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: byteString == null

See original GitHub issue

Originally in Retrofit issues, Jake told me to post this here:

From time to time I am experiencing this fatal error when performing a request. It only happens to one request at a time and I cannot get it to go away until I uninstall and reinstall the application. I am using: com.squareup.retrofit2:retrofit:2.0.0-beta3

and here is the error:

E/AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: OkHttp Dispatcher 
    Process: package_name, PID: 4804 
    java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: byteString == null 
    at okio.Buffer.write(Buffer.java:787)
    at com.squareup.okhttp.Cache$Entry.readCertificateList(Cache.java:628)
    at com.squareup.okhttp.Cache$Entry.<init>(Cache.java:555)
    at com.squareup.okhttp.Cache.get(Cache.java:194)
    at com.squareup.okhttp.Cache$1.get(Cache.java:139)
    at com.squareup.okhttp.internal.http.HttpEngine.sendRequest(HttpEngine.java:226) 
    at com.squareup.okhttp.Call.getResponse(Call.java:267) 
    at com.squareup.okhttp.Call$ApplicationInterceptorChain.proceed(Call.java:224) 
    at com.squareup.okhttp.Call.getResponseWithInterceptorChain(Call.java:195) 
    at com.squareup.okhttp.Call.access$100(Call.java:34) 
    at com.squareup.okhttp.Call$AsyncCall.execute(Call.java:162) 
    at com.squareup.okhttp.internal.NamedRunnable.run(NamedRunnable.java:33) 
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1113)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:588)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:818)

Let me know if you need more information

EDIT: I was able to get the error to stop if I went to system setting and cleared the app cache manually

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Created 8 years ago
Comments:14 (2 by maintainers)

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martin-academiacommented, Oct 13, 2020

One thing I noticed: When we were constructing the OkHttpClient, we created the cache with context.cacheDir as the directory. I didn’t realize until I just looked at it that it’s putting its cache files directly in that directory. Our app may be putting other stuff in that directory as well, so there is the potential for a collision. I’m not sure whether that’s the problem or not, but it seems unsafe so I’m going to change my app to put the OkHttp cache in some subdirectory of context.cacheDir.

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yschimkecommented, Jan 4, 2022

We don’t have a reproduction for this, the suggested one above turned out not to be the case.

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