Collection contains no element matching the predicate

Question

I'm using the Room library, and I'm getting the following error message when I try to build the app:

e: [kapt] An exception occurred: java.util.NoSuchElementException: Collection contains no element matching the predicate.

Here is a more detailed error message:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception
* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':app:kaptDebugKotlin'.
> Compilation error. See log for more details

I isolated the problem in the code to be somewhere in the following, although I don't know what exactly is throwing this exception:

package com.example.pomoplay

import android.content.Context
import androidx.room.Database
import androidx.room.Room
import androidx.room.RoomDatabase

@Database(entities = [(Category::class)], version = 1)
abstract class PomoPlayDatabase: RoomDatabase() {

    abstract fun categoryDao(): CategoryDao

    companion object {
        private var INSTANCE: PomoPlayDatabase? = null
        internal fun getDatabase(context: Context): PomoPlayDatabase?
        {
            if (INSTANCE == null) {
                synchronized(PomoPlayDatabase::class.java) {
                    if (INSTANCE == null) {
                        INSTANCE =
                            Room.databaseBuilder<PomoPlayDatabase>(
                                context.applicationContext,
                                PomoPlayDatabase::class.java,
                                "pomoplay_database").build()
                    }
                }
            }
            return INSTANCE
        }
    }
}

Gradle.build - project

    buildscript {
        ext.kotlin_version = '1.3.61'
        repositories {
            google()
            jcenter()

        }
        dependencies {


            classpath 'androidx.navigation:navigation-safe-args-gradle-plugin:2.1.0'
            classpath 'com.android.tools.build:gradle:3.5.3'
            classpath "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-gradle-plugin:$kotlin_version"
        }
    }

    allprojects {
        repositories {
            google()
            jcenter()

        }
    }

    task clean(type: Delete) {
        delete rootProject.buildDir
    }

Gradle.build - module

apply plugin: 'com.android.application'

apply plugin: 'kotlin-android'

apply plugin: 'kotlin-android-extensions'

apply plugin: "androidx.navigation.safeargs.kotlin"

apply plugin: 'kotlin-kapt'

android {

    packagingOptions {
        exclude 'META-INF/atomicfu.kotlin_module'
    }

    compileSdkVersion 29
    buildToolsVersion "29.0.2"
    defaultConfig {
        applicationId "com.example.pomoplay"
        minSdkVersion 23
        targetSdkVersion 29
        versionCode 1
        versionName "1.0"
        testInstrumentationRunner "androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
    }
    buildTypes {
        release {
            minifyEnabled false
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android-optimize.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
        }
    }
}

dependencies {

    implementation fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    implementation "org.jetbrains.kotlin:kotlin-stdlib-jdk7:$kotlin_version"
    implementation 'androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.1.0'
    implementation 'androidx.core:core-ktx:1.1.0'
    implementation 'androidx.constraintlayout:constraintlayout:1.1.3'
    implementation 'androidx.lifecycle:lifecycle-extensions:2.1.0'
    implementation 'androidx.lifecycle:lifecycle-viewmodel-ktx:2.1.0'
    implementation 'com.google.android.material:material:1.0.0'
    implementation 'androidx.navigation:navigation-fragment-ktx:2.1.0'
    implementation 'androidx.navigation:navigation-ui-ktx:2.1.0'

    //Room Components
    implementation "androidx.room:room-runtime:2.2.3"
    kapt "androidx.room:room-compiler:2.2.3"

    //Testing Components
    testImplementation 'junit:junit:4.13'
    androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test:runner:1.2.0'
    androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.espresso:espresso-core:3.2.0'

}

Answer 1

No need to create separate Data class. Just make sure its Serializable

After spending a day for this error, I identified the issue to be presence of an empty constructor in the @Entity class.

constructor() {}

Its not that always this constructor should be absent. I have another @Entity class where it is very much needed or else it fails with this error

Entities and POJOs must have a usable public constructor. 
You can have an empty constructor or a constructor whose parameters match the fields (by name and type).
public final class Question implements java.io.Serializable

Not understood the reasoning behind it, but must be way of our usage. That shouldn't mean Android Studio should go silent on Line number of compilation error. It felt like a mouse trap