Tencent/tinker · critical · TinkerRuntimeException

res meta Corrupted:{}

Error message

res meta Corrupted:{}

What it means

ShareResPatchInfo.parseResPatchInfoFirstLine parses the first line of the res-meta entry from the patch's meta file. It splits the first line on ',' with limit 3 and assigns kv[1] to arscBaseCrc and kv[2] to resArscMd5. If the meta is non-null but its first line is empty, TinkerRuntimeException('res meta Corrupted:<meta>') is thrown — the resource-patch metadata cannot be interpreted. (Note: fewer than 3 comma-separated parts would instead surface as ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException.)

Source

Thrown at tinker-android/tinker-android-loader-no-op/src/main/java/com/tencent/tinker/loader/shareutil/ShareResPatchInfo.java:161

        if (input.contains("?")) {
            input = input.replaceAll("\\?", "\\.");
        }
        //convert * to.*
        if (input.contains("*")) {
            input = input.replace("*", ".*");
        }
        Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(input);
        return pattern;
    }

    public static void parseResPatchInfoFirstLine(String meta, ShareResPatchInfo info) {
        if (meta == null || meta.length() == 0) {
            return;
        }
        String[] lines = meta.split("\n");
        String firstLine = lines[0];
        if (firstLine == null || firstLine.length() <= 0) {
            throw new TinkerRuntimeException("res meta Corrupted:" + meta);
        }
        final String[] kv = firstLine.split(",", 3);
        info.arscBaseCrc = kv[1];
        info.resArscMd5 = kv[2];
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
        sb.append("resArscMd5:" + resArscMd5 + "\n");
        sb.append("arscBaseCrc:" + arscBaseCrc + "\n");

        for (Pattern pattern : patterns) {
            sb.append("pattern:" + pattern + "\n");
        }
        for (String add : addRes) {
            sb.append("addedSet:" + add + "\n");
        }

View on GitHub (pinned to 1b7ea02c23)

Solutions

1. Rebuild the patch with the tinker gradle plugin version matching the loader SDK, and verify the meta.txt res line starts with the expected 'res,<crc>,<md5>' triple.
2. Validate the patch package (md5 of the whole zip) before applying so corrupted downloads never reach parsing.
3. If you construct the meta string yourself, ensure line 1 is the non-empty header line and later lines carry the entries.
4. Upgrade both tinker gradle plugin and android SDK together from the same release.

Example fix

// before
info.arscBaseCrc = kv[1];
info.resArscMd5 = kv[2];

// after
final String[] kv = firstLine.split(",", 3);
if (kv.length < 3) {
    throw new TinkerRuntimeException("res meta Corrupted:" + meta);
}
info.arscBaseCrc = kv[1];
info.resArscMd5 = kv[2];

String[] parts = firstLine == null ? null : firstLine.split(",", 3);
if (parts == null || parts.length < 3 || firstLine.isEmpty()) {
    // refuse to parse: malformed res meta
}

catch TinkerRuntimeException 'res meta Corrupted' -> reject the patch package and request a rebuilt one

When it happens

Trigger: meta string whose first line (before the first \n) is empty — e.g. a leading newline in the res entry of meta.txt; a res-meta line built by a mismatched/old patch-build tool; manual editing of the package breaking the 'res,' prefix line format.

Common situations: Patch built with an old tinker gradle plugin but loaded with a newer loader (or vice versa); corrupted patch download; resource-only patches where the res meta line was malformed during packaging.

Related errors

• Unexpected type: ${type}
• invalid LEB128 sequence
• bad second byte
• bad second or third byte
• bad byte

AI-assisted analysis of Tencent/tinker@1b7ea02c23 (2026-08-14). Data as JSON: /api/errors/c8c626f351412c00. Report an issue: GitHub.