Backend Internal error: Exception during psi2ir in Jetpack compose

Question

I am getting this error during compilation or code generation, I have set the Jetpack Compose dependencies and working on it, I have made some compose components and previews are visible but during compilation I am getting this issue.

I am using Android Studio ArticFox

org.jetbrains.kotlin.backend.common.BackendException: Backend Internal error: Exception during psi2ir
File being compiled: (154,13) in /Users/vipulthawre/AndroidStudioProjects/tbappCompose/base-question-module/src/main/java/com/testbook/tbapp/base_question/MamcqPracticeHtml.kt

The root cause java.lang.StackOverflowError was thrown at: java.base/java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
null: KtBinaryExpression:

""

        return styleCss
}

Image:

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my module.gradle:

plugins {
    id 'com.android.library'
    id 'kotlin-android'
}

android {
    compileSdkVersion 30
    buildToolsVersion "30.0.3"

    defaultConfig {
        minSdkVersion 21
        targetSdkVersion 30
        versionCode 1
        versionName "1.0"
        vectorDrawables.useSupportLibrary = true
        testInstrumentationRunner "androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
        consumerProguardFiles "consumer-rules.pro"
    }

    buildFeatures {
        // Enables Jetpack Compose for this module

        compose true
    }

    buildTypes {
        release {
            minifyEnabled false
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android-optimize.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
        }
    }
    compileOptions {
        sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
        targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
    }
    kotlinOptions {
        jvmTarget = '1.8'
        useIR = true
    }

    composeOptions {
        kotlinCompilerVersion = "1.5.10"
        kotlinCompilerExtensionVersion = "1.0.0-beta09"
    }
}

dependencies {
    implementation project(":resource-module")
    implementation project(":constants-module")
    implementation project(":prefs-module")

    implementation project(":network-module")

    implementation project(path: ':models-module')
    implementation project(":base-ui-module")

    api 'androidx.core:core-ktx:1.5.0'
    implementation 'androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.3.0'
    api 'com.google.android.material:material:1.3.0'
    testImplementation 'junit:junit:4.+'
    androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.ext:junit:1.1.2'
    androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.espresso:espresso-core:3.3.0'

    api("androidx.compose.ui:ui:1.0.0-beta09")
    // Tooling support (Previews, etc.)
    api("androidx.compose.ui:ui-tooling:1.0.0-beta09")
    // Foundation (Border, Background, Box, Image, Scroll, shapes, animations, etc.)
    api("androidx.compose.foundation:foundation:1.0.0-beta09")
    // Material Design
    api("androidx.compose.material:material:1.0.0-beta09")
    // Material design icons
    api("androidx.compose.material:material-icons-core:1.0.0-beta09")
    api("androidx.compose.material:material-icons-extended:1.0.0-beta09")
    // Integration with observables
    api("androidx.compose.runtime:runtime-livedata:1.0.0-beta09")
    api("androidx.compose.runtime:runtime-rxjava2:1.0.0-beta09")
    api("androidx.compose.compiler:compiler:1.0.0-beta09")

    api 'androidx.activity:activity-compose:1.3.0-beta02'
    // UI Tests
    androidTestImplementation("androidx.compose.ui:ui-test-junit4:1.0.0-beta09")
}

user_16414807 · Answer

I was having same issue Invalidate Caches / Restart in Android Studio worked for me

user_7943251 · Answer

Build > Clean Project fixed my problem

user_10462531 · Answer

For me, the real issue was hidden in the top level build error:

Click that and it should reveal a lengthier error message with a stack trace.

user_7024091 · Answer

This issue is occurring cause the styleCss string is a collection of more than 100+ small strings which are being appended together to create a single string but due to the reduction of stack size of Kotlin from version 1.5.0, it is giving a Stackoverflow Error. This issue can be solved by using multiLineStringLiteral of Kotlin something like this.

val styleCss =
            """<style type=\"text/css\">
        body {
            color: #1E2022;
            margin: 0px;
        }"""

I have solved the above issue using this way. You can read more about this here.

val styleCss =
            """

user_1411490 · Answer

This occurred to my build after updating Kotlin version from 1.5.31 to 1.6.0. Reverting back the build finished

user_2591155 · Answer

In my case it was kodein import issue.

For this override val kodein by kodein()

We need to import import org.kodein.di.android.x.kodein

user_13506388 · Answer

I faced the same error.

As of now, invalidate caches / Restart might solve this, so try it

Go to

File -> Invalidate Caches / Restart

Backend Internal error: Exception during psi2ir in Jetpack compose

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