Could not find method dependencyResolutionManagement() for arguments

Question

I'm trying to use a project which my teacher gave to me, but it shows me an error

    Settings file '/Users/admin/AndroidStudioProjects/HTTPNetworking/settings.gradle' line: 1

A problem occurred evaluating settings 'HTTPNetworking'.
> Could not find method dependencyResolutionManagement() for arguments [settings_d1xerae4a210x6r7efckrwyki$_run_closure1@580a3803] on settings 'HTTPNetworking' of type org.gradle.initialization.DefaultSettings.

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* Exception is:
org.gradle.api.GradleScriptException: A problem occurred evaluating settings 'HTTPNetworking'.
Caused by: org.gradle.internal.metaobject.AbstractDynamicObject$CustomMessageMissingMethodException: Could not find method dependencyResolutionManagement() for arguments [settings_d1xerae4a210x6r7efckrwyki$_run_closure1@580a3803] on settings 'HTTPNetworking' of type org.gradle.initialization.DefaultSettings
at settings_d1xerae4a210x6r7efckrwyki.run(/Users/admin/AndroidStudioProjects/HTTPNetworking/settings.gradle:1)

settings.gradle contains:

dependencyResolutionManagement {
   repositoriesMode.set(RepositoriesMode.FAIL_ON_PROJECT_REPOS)
      repositories {
         google()
         mavenCentral()
         jcenter() // Warning: this repository is going to shut down soon
      }
}
rootProject.name = "HTTP Networking"
include ':app'

What's wrong with it?

Answer 1

This error can be caused by defining the dependencyResolutionManagement block in a build.gradle file instead of in the settings.gradle (which is where the doco clearly tells you to put it).

Not that I did that or anything. Feel free to upvote this answer if you also totally did not make this obviously dumb mistake.