Gradle: Could not find method providedCompile()

Question

How are this and this build file able to use providedCompile?

thufir@doge:~/NetBeansProjects/gradleEAR$  thufir@doge:~/NetBeansProjects/gradleEAR$ gradle clean  FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.  * Where: Build file '/home/thufir/NetBeansProjects/gradleEAR/build.gradle' line: 40  * What went wrong: A problem occurred evaluating root project 'gradleEAR'. > Could not find method providedCompile() for arguments [javax:javaee-api:7.0] on object of type org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.dsl.dependencies.DefaultDependencyHandler.  * Try: Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.  BUILD FAILED  Total time: 12.721 secs thufir@doge:~/NetBeansProjects/gradleEAR$   plugins {     id 'com.gradle.build-scan' version '1.8'      id 'java'     id 'application'     id 'ear' }  mainClassName = 'net.bounceme.doge.json.Main'  buildScan {     licenseAgreementUrl = 'https://gradle.com/terms-of-service'     licenseAgree = 'yes' }  repositories {     jcenter() }  jar {     manifest {         attributes 'Main-Class': 'net.bounceme.doge.json.Main'     } }  task fatJar(type: Jar) {     baseName = project.name + '-all'     from { configurations.compile.collect { it.isDirectory() ? it : zipTree(it) } }     with jar     manifest {         attributes 'Implementation-Title': 'Gradle Quickstart', 'Implementation-Version': '3.4.0'         attributes 'Main-Class': 'net.bounceme.doge.json.Main'     } }  dependencies {     compile group: 'javax.json', name: 'javax.json-api', version: '1.1'     compile group: 'org.glassfish', name: 'javax.json', version: '1.1'     providedCompile 'javax:javaee-api:7.0' } 

In reference to:

How does Gradle resolve the javaee-api dependency to build an EAR?

Answer 1

You can get this error if you have a higher version of Gradle installed. For example you have:

gradle --version 

giving

Gradle 5.0 

but the project expects Gradle 2.10 or some other lower version of Gradle.

To solve this first try to use Gradle wrapper ./gradlew (if included with project) instead of locally installed gradle. Or install a correct version of gradle and make it available using path variable.

Answer 2

providedCompile is shipped with war plugin. So you need to add:

plugins {   // ...   id 'war' }