Failure to start FinAppServer in Cloud Shell environment

[takabow]

When FinApp Server is started in a Cloud Shell environment, the following Exception is thrown and it does not start.

According to the doc, when we use a Google Cloud cloud-based development environment such as Cloud Shell or Cloud Code, the applications running on the environment uses the credentials we provided when we logged in, and manages any authorizations required.

However, the grpc-java used by FinApp Server does not take this into account, so an error occurs when FinApp Server is started in a Cloud Shell environment.

As far as I've tried, using grpc-java v1.43.0+ instead of v1.38.0 solved this issue.

Since this application is used as the official Cloud Spanner sample, this fix should help users.

Expected Behavior

$ java -jar server/target/server-1.0-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar  --spanner_project_id=<YOUR_PROJECT> --spanner_instance_id=<YOUR_INSTANCE> --spanner_database_id=finance-db
Dec 09, 2022 3:55:00 PM com.google.finapp.FinAppServer start
INFO: Server started, listening on 8080

Actual Behavior

$ java -jar server/target/server-1.0-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar  --spanner_project_id=<YOUR_PROJECT> --spanner_instance_id=<YOUR_INSTANCE> --spanner_database_id=finance-db
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: 'io.grpc.alts.GoogleDefaultChannelCredentials$Builder io.grpc.alts.GoogleDefaultChannelCredentials.newBuilder()'
        at com.google.api.gax.grpc.InstantiatingGrpcChannelProvider.createSingleChannel(InstantiatingGrpcChannelProvider.java:326)
        at com.google.api.gax.grpc.ChannelPool.<init>(ChannelPool.java:105)
        at com.google.api.gax.grpc.ChannelPool.create(ChannelPool.java:83)
        at com.google.api.gax.grpc.InstantiatingGrpcChannelProvider.createChannel(InstantiatingGrpcChannelProvider.java:236)
        at com.google.api.gax.grpc.InstantiatingGrpcChannelProvider.getTransportChannel(InstantiatingGrpcChannelProvider.java:230)
        at com.google.api.gax.rpc.ClientContext.create(ClientContext.java:201)
        at com.google.cloud.spanner.v1.stub.GrpcSpannerStub.create(GrpcSpannerStub.java:231)
        at com.google.cloud.spanner.spi.v1.GapicSpannerRpc.<init>(GapicSpannerRpc.java:411)
        at com.google.cloud.spanner.spi.v1.GapicSpannerRpc.<init>(GapicSpannerRpc.java:302)
        at com.google.cloud.spanner.SpannerOptions$DefaultSpannerRpcFactory.create(SpannerOptions.java:469)
        at com.google.cloud.spanner.SpannerOptions$DefaultSpannerRpcFactory.create(SpannerOptions.java:464)
        at com.google.cloud.ServiceOptions.getRpc(ServiceOptions.java:560)
        at com.google.cloud.spanner.SpannerOptions.getSpannerRpcV1(SpannerOptions.java:1320)
        at com.google.cloud.spanner.SpannerImpl.<init>(SpannerImpl.java:132)
        at com.google.cloud.spanner.SpannerOptions$DefaultSpannerFactory.create(SpannerOptions.java:459)
        at com.google.cloud.spanner.SpannerOptions$DefaultSpannerFactory.create(SpannerOptions.java:454)
        at com.google.cloud.ServiceOptions.getService(ServiceOptions.java:540)
        at com.google.finapp.ServerMain.getSpannerDao(ServerMain.java:55)
        at com.google.finapp.ServerMain.main(ServerMain.java:33)

Steps to Reproduce the Problem

1. Open Cloud Shell environment.
2. Initialize finance-db
3. Run java -jar server/target/server-1.0-SNAPSHOT-jar-with-dependencies.jar --spanner_project_id=<YOUR_PROJECT> --spanner_instance_id=<YOUR_INSTANCE> --spanner_database_id=finance-db

Solution

• Use grpc-java v1.43.0 instead of v1.38.0
• alts: Make GoogleDefaultChannelCredentials take a CallCredentials grpc/grpc-java#8548

Specifications

• Version: latest as of 2022-12-09 Add empty CloudSpannerSampleApp in SDL #87
• Platform: Cloud Shell

[ronoaldo]

A few years later and this happens if we run this via gcloud from Cloud Shell:

gcloud spanner samples run finance --instance-id=my-instance

The exact same error happens in Cloud Shell.

[ronoaldo]

I can confirm that replacing the version in the POM to the provided here fixes the issue. I could even replace the cached jar and have the gcloud spanner samples run to actually work on Cloud Shell environment.