Could not find method bootJar() for arguments

Question

While building the gradle project I am getting below error- FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

• Where: Build file '/Users/vdubey/Documents/microservices/workspace/Promo-Service/build.gradle' line: 30

• What went wrong: A problem occurred evaluating root project 'Promo-Service'.

  Could not find method bootJar() for arguments [build_3jq74tz48uic808y18txabjvx$_run_closure1@5c4aa147] on root project 'Promo-Service' of type org.gradle.api.Project.

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Any clue why it is failing?

Answer 1

Consider checking the presence of gradle plugin for Spring Boot: https://plugins.gradle.org/plugin/org.springframework.boot

For Gradle 2.1 and later:

plugins {
  id "org.springframework.boot" version "2.1.0.RELEASE"
}

For older Gradle versions:

buildscript {
  repositories {
    maven {
      url "https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/"
    }
  }
  dependencies {
    classpath "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-gradle-plugin:2.1.0.RELEASE"
  }
}

apply plugin: "org.springframework.boot"