Issue with android M compilesdkversion 23

[rahul-ramanujam]

I am getting the following gradle error after updating to latest sdk version

Warning:com.parse.ParseApacheHttpClient: can't find referenced method 'org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLSocketFactory getHttpSocketFactory(int,android.net.SSLSessionCache)' >in library class android.net.SSLCertificateSocketFactory

I am using "useLibrary" option in the gradle file to include legacy apache
android {
useLibrary 'org.apache.http.legacy'
}

[grantland]

This seems related to #189. Unfortunately I thought this was only an issue with compiling the SDK with compileSdkVersion = 23, but it's actually a problem using it as well. I'll try to get a fix out soon.

[rahul-ramanujam]

@grantland cool , Thanks

[grantland]

A workaround for now would be to lower the compileSdkVersion as long as you're not using any specific M APIs.

[grantland]

Unfortunately this looks like a deeper problem than I originally thought. We're utilizing some APIs that were completely removed from android-23 that aren't even in the Apache Http Legacy support library:

SSLCertificateSocketFactory.getHttpSocketFactory(socketOperationTimeout, sslSessionCache)

Originally I thought we could use the code that the above method used internally, but it looks like that was no longer exist as well:

public static org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLSocketFactory getHttpSocketFactory(
        int handshakeTimeoutMillis, SSLSessionCache cache) {
    return new org.apache.http.conn.ssl.SSLSocketFactory(
            new SSLCertificateSocketFactory(handshakeTimeoutMillis, cache, true));
}

(from https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+/lollipop-release/core/java/android/net/SSLCertificateSocketFactory.java#158)

The above is necessary to cache SSL sessions and removing it would slow down all requests for all devices utilizing org.apache.http.

Using compileSdkVersion = 22 is still a valid workaround as long as you're not using APIs from android-23.

We'll be looking into completely removing Apache from our codebase pending some testing of whether or not HttpURLConnection works well on android-9 through android-18, which we'll do by the end of the week.

[rahul-ramanujam]

I am looking into updating the support libraries to the latest version , which require us to update the compileSdkVersion to 23. A tentative date for the fix would help me plan accordingly. Thanks

[grantland]

If everything works smoothly with HttpURLConnection, end of next week.

By the way, I'm trying to reproduce this issue and have tried both running a debug app with compileSdkVersion = 23 and building a signed release, but neither turn up this error. Could you specify some repro steps? /cc @iampawan

[rahul-ramanujam]

Sounds good . Did you enable

android {
useLibrary 'org.apache.http.legacy'
}

I am using the legacy apache on my project , So had to include this.

[grantland]

Yes I did enable that. Are you pulling in the SDK from source or are you using the compiled jar or Maven Central repository? Are you able to reproduce this issue with the ParseStarterProject?

[rahul-ramanujam]

I haven't tried the parseStarterProject . I am including the following dependency in gradle for parse

compile 'com.parse:parse-android:1.10.3'

[grantland]

Could you attempt to reproduce this issue with the blank ParseStarterProject and post your repro steps here?