App crash on device HTC M8 with OS Lollipop for web service call

Question

App crashing on Android Lollipop when calling web service using ksoap.

Please see error log

java.lang.NoSuchFieldError: No instance field headerOut of type [Lorg/kxml2/kdom/Element; in class Lorg/ksoap2/serialization/SoapSerializationEnvelope; or its superclasses (declaration of 'org.ksoap2.serialization.SoapSerializationEnvelope' appears in /system/framework/wifi-service.jar)
at com.-----.---------.-----.----.services.AuthenticateUser.createHeader(AuthenticateUser.java:77)
at com.-----.---------.-----.----.services.AuthenticateUser.authenticateUser(AuthenticateUser.java:49)
at com.-----.---------.-----.----.services.---------GenericServiceThread.callWS(GenericServiceThread.java:219)
at com.-----.---------.-----.----.services.---------GenericServiceThread.invokeWebServiceApi(GenericServiceThread.java:106)
at com.-----.---------.-----.----.services.---------GenericServiceThread.run(GenericServiceThread.java:89)

I have tested same app on Nexus 4 emulator of Android version 5.0 and is working fine.

I am using below code for calling webservice

mHttpTransportSE = new AndroidHttpTransport (url);
mHttpTransportSE.debug = true; // this is optional, use it if you don't
mHttpTransportSE.call(Configuration.COM_SOAP_ACTION_AUTHENTICATEUSER, envelope);
result = envelope.getResponse();

I have also change AndroidHttpTransport to HttpTransportSE but not sure for that.
Is this change resolve my problem?
Is any other solution for this problem?

Thank you in advance.

Answer 1

I solved it by changing ksoap2 package name to ksoap2clone. I don't know the solution is good but it's now working. Please share, if you find better solution.

File is here.

Answer 2

Same problem here. Looks like HTC is using their own ksoap2. See " https://code.google.com/p/ksoap2-android/issues/detail?id=205&can=1&start=200 "

Answer 3

I have the same problems (HTC M8), but I'm using ksoap2 3.4.0 jar with dependencies. From the stacktrace it looked obvious someone in HTC thought it would be a good idea to include ksoap2. Unfortunately they didn't think this through and made the same mistake as Google with Apache Commons and HttpClient.

To rename the package I used jarjar and it seems to work fine.

For anyone needing a quick solution here are the jarjar rules and commandline:

rules.txt

rule org.ksoap2.** org.repackage.ksoap2.@1

command line

java -jar jarjar.jar process rules.txt ksoap2-android-assembly-3.4.0-jar-with-dependencies.jar ksoap2-repackaged.jar