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What version of gRPC are you using?

1.20.0

What did you expect to see?

The use of io.grpc:grpc-protobuf-lite and com.google.cloud:google-cloud-bigtable should not raise NoSuchMethodError.

While I was checking the compatibility of google libraries, I found grpc-protobuf-lite has classes that are not compatible with many GCP-related libraries (the list noted below), including com.google.cloud:google-cloud-bigtable:jar:0.84.0-alpha.

Example project to reproduce this issue: https://github.com/suztomo/protobuf-lite-vs-bigtable shows:

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: com.google.protobuf.UnsafeByteOperations.unsafeWrap([B)Lcom/google/protobuf/ByteString;
    at com.google.cloud.bigtable.data.v2.models.Range$ByteStringRange.prefix (Range.java:363)
    at com.google.cloud.bigtable.data.v2.models.Range$ByteStringRange.prefix (Range.java:336)
    at suztomo.App.main (App.java:14)

For grpc-protobuf-lite, I only found this sentence in the doc:

For Android client, use grpc-okhttp instead of grpc-netty-shaded and grpc-protobuf-lite instead of grpc-protobuf
from grpc-java documentation

Questions

• Would you explain the difference between grpc-protobuf and grpc-protobuf-lite?
• Do you think the incompatibility between io.grpc:grpc-protobuf-lite and com.google.cloud:google-cloud-bigtable is something that needs to be fixed (probably for Android apps accessing GCP services)?

Incompatible Libraries

Other libraries that seem not compatible with grpc-protobuf-lite includes: com.google.cloud:google-cloud-automl:jar:0.84.0-beta, com.google.cloud:google-cloud-bigquerydatatransfer:jar:0.84.0-beta, com.google.cloud:google-cloud-container:jar:0.84.0-beta, com.google.cloud:google-cloud-datastore:jar:1.66.0, and com.google.cloud:google-cloud-speech:jar:0.84.0-beta.