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Java

Daniel Silva
Daniel Silva
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Posted by Daniel Silva
Daniel Silva
11,209 Points

Issues with gradle build on the debugging existing java project

I receive the following error when running gradle on this project:

  • What went wrong: A problem occurred evaluating root project 'flashy'. > Failed to apply plugin [class 'io.spring.gradle.dependencymanagement.DependencyManagementPlugin'] > Could not create task ':dependencyManagement'. > Could not create task of type 'DependencyManagementReportTask'.

Someone please help.

6 Answers

Ronicca Park
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Ronicca Park
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 9,212 Points
Ronicca Park
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Ronicca Park
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After spending hours troubleshooting and looking up online, I was able to compile it.

You have you change your classpath dependency and the plugin you apply:

'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-gradle-plugin:1.5.3.RELEASE'

apply plugin: 'org.springframework.boot'

Because spring-boot is already deprecated.

This goes to show that this lesson is incredibly outdated. Very disappointing.

Erick Luna
Erick Luna
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Erick Luna
Erick Luna
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It works, thanks Juan Carlos Garcia Bazan, and yes, the course needs to be updated. Also, it will be good if some of the Teamtreehouse staff members respond to these questions :/

Micah Newsum
Micah Newsum
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Ronicca Park Thank you for providing this solution. I ran into the same issue and this did the trick. It's a shame that Treehouse still hasn't responded to this thread years later.

Luka Belani
Luka Belani
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Luka Belani
Luka Belani
10,673 Points

Hey, have you figured it out? I'm getting B6 error on the same project.

Daniel Silva
Daniel Silva
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Daniel Silva
Daniel Silva
11,209 Points

I couldn't... So just watched the tutorial without following along.

Luka Belani
Luka Belani
10,673 Points
Luka Belani
Luka Belani
10,673 Points

Same here... Thanks for the reply!

Gerard Streelman
Gerard Streelman
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Gerard Streelman
Gerard Streelman
5,680 Points

I have not been able to do any of the Gradle assignments. :( Very disappointed!

Luka Belani
Luka Belani
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Luka Belani
Luka Belani
10,673 Points

Hey Gerard, I think it was an issue with Gradle versions. so I'd manually change to current version in ./gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties under distributionUrl and it'd work for me. Give it a try.

#Wed Apr 05 21:03:46 PDT 2017
distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
distributionPath=wrapper/dists
zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
zipStorePath=wrapper/dists
distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-5.4.1-all.zip
Ronicca Park
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Ronicca Park
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Ronicca Park
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Ronicca Park
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 9,212 Points

I tried the work around of manually changing the distributionURL in the grade-wrapper.properties file but unfortunately it did not work for me. It still points me to the line "apply plugin: 'spring-boot'" and gives me the same error as the original post in this thread. I even tried different versions of the Gradle distribution...to no avail.

I feel like this is something the Treehouse admins should jump on since it's clearly stopping multiple people from progressing.