Databinding: Build failure when enabling --persistent_android_resource_processor

[arunkumar9t2]

Description of the problem / feature request:

When databinding is used, specifically if layout xml has databinding expressions, persistent workers for Android resource work cannot be enabled. Enabling it causes the build to fail with the following message.

Merging compiled Android resources for //:A failed: Worker process did not return a WorkResponse:

---8<---8<--- Start of log, file at /private/var/tmp/_bazel_arun.sampathkumar/b612b0579661b9b8cf8dbfbec098862c/bazel-workers/worker-18-AndroidCompiledResourceMerger.log ---8<---8<---
Exception in thread "main" com.google.common.base.VerifyException: layout/activity_main.xml-0 is not a valid resource name. Expected ^((?<package>[^:]+):)?(?<type>\w+)/(?<name>[A-Za-z0-9_.$]+)$
        at com.google.common.base.Verify.verify(Verify.java:424)
        at com.google.devtools.build.android.ResourceName.parse(ResourceName.java:54)
        at com.google.devtools.build.android.AndroidCompiledDataDeserializer.consumeCompiledFile(AndroidCompiledDataDeserializer.java:530)
        at com.google.devtools.build.android.AndroidCompiledDataDeserializer.read(AndroidCompiledDataDeserializer.java:675)
        at com.google.devtools.build.android.SerializedAndroidData.deserialize(SerializedAndroidData.java:108)
        at com.google.devtools.build.android.AndroidResourceMerger.mergeCompiledData(AndroidResourceMerger.java:258)
        at com.google.devtools.build.android.AndroidCompiledResourceMergingAction.main(AndroidCompiledResourceMergingAction.java:231)
        at com.google.devtools.build.android.ResourceProcessorBusyBox$Tool$3.call(ResourceProcessorBusyBox.java:81)
        at com.google.devtools.build.android.ResourceProcessorBusyBox.processRequest(ResourceProcessorBusyBox.java:233)
        at com.google.devtools.build.android.ResourceProcessorBusyBox.runPersistentWorker(ResourceProcessorBusyBox.java:198)
        at com.google.devtools.build.android.ResourceProcessorBusyBox.main(ResourceProcessorBusyBox.java:175)
---8<---8<--- End of log ---8<---8<---
Target //:app failed to build

Feature requests: what underlying problem are you trying to solve with this feature?

Ability to enable workers for android resource work for performance.

Bugs: what's the simplest, easiest way to reproduce this bug? Please provide a minimal example if possible.

databinding_workers.zip

bazelisk build app

# observe errors 

What operating system are you running Bazel on?

Mac OS Catalina

What's the output of bazel info release?

release 4.1.0

If bazel info release returns "development version" or "(@non-git)", tell us how you built Bazel.

NA

What's the output of git remote get-url origin ; git rev-parse master ; git rev-parse HEAD ?

NA

Have you found anything relevant by searching the web?

TBA

Any other information, logs, or outputs that you want to share?

Bazel Rc contents

build --verbose_failures
build --nouse_workers_with_dexbuilder
build --incompatible_disable_depset_items
build --strategy=Desugar=sandboxed

# Databinding flags
build --experimental_android_databinding_v2
build --android_databinding_use_v3_4_args
#build --android_databinding_use_androidx

# Flags to enable latest android providers in rules
build --experimental_google_legacy_api

build --persistent_android_resource_processor

try-import local.bazelrc

Related #2694