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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Shaded google dependency points to dangling annotation references","articleBody":"Hi team,\n\nI have been running Spring for GraphQL tests against GraphQL Java 26.0 for a while now.\nBut as I'm preparing for the next minor version, I am trying to compile the project against 26.0 and getting compiler warnings [like this](https://ge.spring.io/s/gbe5qn2httlk6).\n\n```\n:spring-graphql:compileJava FAILED\t\n/Users/bclozel/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/com.graphql-java/graphql-java/26.0/d1a1d3005ca6f4a87b4a985a1907b22bf5b63700/graphql-java-26.0.jar(/graphql/com/google/common/collect/ImmutableList.class): warning: [classfile] Cannot find annotation method 'serializable()' in type 'GwtCompatible': class file for com.google.common.annotations.GwtCompatible not found\t\n/Users/bclozel/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/com.graphql-java/graphql-java/26.0/d1a1d3005ca6f4a87b4a985a1907b22bf5b63700/graphql-java-26.0.jar(/graphql/com/google/common/collect/ImmutableList.class): warning: [classfile] Cannot find annotation method 'emulated()' in type 'GwtCompatible'\t\n/Users/bclozel/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/com.graphql-java/graphql-java/26.0/d1a1d3005ca6f4a87b4a985a1907b22bf5b63700/graphql-java-26.0.jar(/graphql/com/google/common/collect/ImmutableList.class): warning: [classfile] Cannot find annotation method 'value()' in type 'DoNotCall': class file for com.google.errorprone.annotations.DoNotCall not found\t\n/Users/bclozel/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/com.graphql-java/graphql-java/26.0/d1a1d3005ca6f4a87b4a985a1907b22bf5b63700/graphql-java-26.0.jar(/graphql/com/google/common/collect/ImmutableList.class): warning: [classfile] Cannot find annotation method 'value()' in type 'DoNotCall'\t\n/Users/bclozel/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/com.graphql-java/graphql-java/26.0/d1a1d3005ca6f4a87b4a985a1907b22bf5b63700/graphql-java-26.0.jar(/graphql/com/google/common/collect/ImmutableList.class): warning: [classfile] Cannot find annotation method 'value()' in type 'DoNotCall'\t\n/Users/bclozel/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/com.graphql-java/graphql-java/26.0/d1a1d3005ca6f4a87b4a985a1907b22bf5b63700/graphql-java-26.0.jar(/graphql/com/google/common/collect/ImmutableList.class): warning: [classfile] Cannot find annotation method 'value()' in type 'DoNotCall'\t\n/Users/bclozel/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/com.graphql-java/graphql-java/26.0/d1a1d3005ca6f4a87b4a985a1907b22bf5b63700/graphql-java-26.0.jar(/graphql/com/google/common/collect/ImmutableList.class): warning: [classfile] Cannot find annotation method 'value()' in type 'DoNotCall'\t\n/Users/bclozel/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/com.graphql-java/graphql-java/26.0/d1a1d3005ca6f4a87b4a985a1907b22bf5b63700/graphql-java-26.0.jar(/graphql/com/google/common/collect/ImmutableList.class): warning: [classfile] Cannot find annotation method 'value()' in type 'DoNotCall'\t\n/Users/bclozel/.gradle/caches/modules-2/files-2.1/com.graphql-java/graphql-java/26.0/d1a1d3005ca6f4a87b4a985a1907b22bf5b63700/graphql-java-26.0.jar(/graphql/com/google/common/collect/ImmutableList.class): warning: [classfile] Cannot find annotation method 'replacement()' in type 'InlineMe': class file for com.google.errorprone.annotations.InlineMe not found\t\nerror: warnings found and -Werror specified\n```\n\nThis is breaking my build since it's compiling with `javac -Xlint:classfile -Werror`\n\n\nIt looks like 26.0 shades relocated Guava classes (like `graphql.com.google.common.collect.ImmutableList`) whose bytecode still carries `RuntimeInvisibleAnnotations` referencing the original relocated annotation\ntypes:\n\n* `com.google.common.annotations.GwtCompatible`\n* `com.google.errorprone.annotations.DoNotCall`\n* `com.google.errorprone.annotations.InlineMe`\n\nThose classes are not present in the jar and this causes the compiler issues.\n\nYou can reproduce this with a minimal build like and run `compileJava`: \n\n```groovy\ndependencies {\n    implementation 'com.graphql-java:graphql-java:26.0'\n}\n\ntasks.withType(JavaCompile).configureEach {\n    options.compilerArgs += ['-Xlint:classfile', '-Werror']\n}\n```\n\nI can't reproduce this with 25.0, but I'm not sure when/how this was introduced.\nI guess the shadowJar task configuration must be updated to avoid such problems.","author":{"url":"https://github.com/bclozel","@type":"Person","name":"bclozel"},"datePublished":"2026-08-05T19:17:33Z","url":"https://github.com/graphql-java/graphql-java/issues/4436"}