[SOLVED] sbt scoverage plugin error: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: sbt.package$.singleFileJsonFormatter()Lsjsonnew/JsonFormat;

sbt scoverage plugin error: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: sbt.package$.singleFileJsonFormatter()Lsjsonnew/JsonFormat;

i am trying to use scoverage for code coverage in my plugins.sbt i have added

addSbtPlugin("org.scoverage" % "sbt-scoverage" % "2.0.9")

here is my build.sbt

ThisBuild / scalaVersion := "2.13.1"
coverageEnabled := true

here is build.properties file

sbt.version = 1.2.8

upon building project, i am getting the following exception

java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: sbt.package$.singleFileJsonFormatter()Lsjsonnew/JsonFormat;
[error]     at scoverage.ScoverageKeys$.coverageSourceRoot$lzycompute(ScoverageKeys.scala:22)
[error]     at scoverage.ScoverageKeys$.coverageSourceRoot(ScoverageKeys.scala:22)
[error]     at scoverage.ScoverageSbtPlugin$.coverageReport0$lzycompute(ScoverageSbtPlugin.scala:215)
[error]     at scoverage.ScoverageSbtPlugin$.coverageReport0(ScoverageSbtPlugin.scala:203)
[error]     at scoverage.ScoverageSbtPlugin$.projectSettings(ScoverageSbtPlugin.scala:68)
[error]     at sbt.internal.Load$.$anonfun$resolveProject$3(Load.scala:1062)
[error]     at scala.collection.TraversableLike.$anonfun$flatMap$1(TraversableLike.scala:240)
[error]     at scala.collection.immutable.List.foreach(List.scala:388)

i have tried to downgrade to the version 2.0.5 and 2.0.4 as given here

Solution

The problem is the version of sbt you are using. Here you have some links for reference

Unable to import plugin to scala in plugins.sbt file

Method sbt.package$.singleFileJsonFormatter() appeared in sbt 1.3.0

So sbt-native-packager 1.9.4 seems to be binary incompatible with sbt 1.2.8-

Either upgrade sbt to 1.3.0+ in project/build.properties (current sbt is 1.8.2) or downgrade sbt-native-packager as you did in your next question Unable to make docker image using sbt-native-packager