I am attempting to read from Google Bigtable in my Java application. I am using the libraries-bom to manage both bigtable, as well as google-aiplatform. I am getting the following error when hitting my graphql endpoint to trigger Bigtable.

[c.i.p.s.r.f.CommonServiceLogFilter]-[339]-Error occurred in filter jakarta.servlet.ServletException: Request processing failed: java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: 'com.google.protobuf.Internal$ProtobufList com.google.bigtable.v2.RowSet.emptyList(java.lang.Class)'

package com.example.demo;


import com.google.api.gax.core.FixedCredentialsProvider;
import com.google.api.gax.rpc.NotFoundException;
import com.google.auth.oauth2.AccessToken;
import com.google.auth.oauth2.GoogleCredentials;
import com.google.cloud.bigtable.data.v2.BigtableDataClient;
import com.google.cloud.bigtable.data.v2.BigtableDataSettings;
import com.google.cloud.bigtable.data.v2.models.Row;
import com.google.cloud.bigtable.data.v2.models.RowCell;
import com.google.cloud.bigtable.data.v2.models.TableId;

import org.slf4j.Logger;
import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;

@Component
public class Bigtable {
    private static final Logger logger = LoggerFactory.getLogger(Bigtable.class);

    @Autowired
    private AuthToken authToken;

    public String queryByRowKey(String projectId, String instanceId, String tableId, String key) throws Exception {
        String accessToken = authToken.makeCredential();
        GoogleCredentials credentials = GoogleCredentials.create(new AccessToken(accessToken, null));
        FixedCredentialsProvider credentialsProvider = FixedCredentialsProvider.create(credentials);

        BigtableDataSettings settings =
        BigtableDataSettings.newBuilder()
            .setProjectId(projectId)
            .setInstanceId(instanceId)
            .setCredentialsProvider(credentialsProvider)
            .build();

        BigtableDataClient dataClient = BigtableDataClient.create(settings);
        try {
            System.out.println("nReading a single row by row key");
            Row row = dataClient.readRow(TableId.of(tableId), key);
            System.out.println("Row: " + row.getKey().toStringUtf8());
            for (RowCell cell : row.getCells()) {
              System.out.printf(
                  "Family: %s    Qualifier: %s    Value: %s%n",
                  cell.getFamily(), cell.getQualifier().toStringUtf8(), cell.getValue().toStringUtf8());
            }
            return row.toString();
          } catch (NotFoundException e) {
            System.err.println("Failed to read from a non-existent table: " + e.getMessage());
            return null;
          }
    }
}

Here is my pom.xml file.

<dependency>
            <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
            <artifactId>google-cloud-aiplatform</artifactId>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
            <artifactId>google-cloud-bigtable</artifactId>
            <version>2.39.0</version>
        </dependency>

<dependency>
                <groupId>com.google.cloud</groupId>
                <artifactId>libraries-bom</artifactId>
                <version>26.38.0</version>
                <type>pom</type>
                <scope>import</scope>
            </dependency>

The service account being used here has the correct permissions to read from the table, and I’ve successfully been able to use Bigtable studio to query for a row key to get results. However, instead of a returned value I get the exception above.

I’ve tried pinning Bigtable to a specific version (2.39.0) as I thought it’s possible there is a version conflict. Has anybody experienced this before and is able to provide guidance or steps on how to diagnose the root cause?