Gradle build - not able to import org.json

Question

I have a problem where I’m trying to include org.json as a dependency in my gradle/spring boot project. In my build.gradle I have

dependencies {
    compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web")
    compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-security")
    compile("org.json:json:20141113")
}

But in the editor window it looks like IntelliJ is not able to import org.json - it’s unable to find the package

What’s weird is that I can run the gradle ‘build’ task without errors in IntelliJ, and I can run

./gradlew clean build && java -jar build/libs/MyApp-0.1.0.jar

and it works fine.

Is this a ‘fat jar’ problem? I’m not sure it is because org.json is definitely not in my class path on the command line. Any advice appreciated.

Answer 1

I was able to successfully download json in my gradle dependencies:

implementation 'org.json:json:20171018'