mockito in gradle not working for java project

Question

I have a basic java project and I want to run tests using Mockito (since I use it at work and it's easy). So I referred to this link and added the following to my build.gradle

dependencies {
    testCompile 'junit:junit:4.11'
    testCompile "org.mockito:mockito-core:1.+"
}

Even though I think mavenCentral() should be enough, I went ahead and added these to my repositories list

repositories {
    mavenLocal()
    jcenter()
    mavenCentral()
}

The ./gradlew clean build runs perfectly fine, but when I try to add the import for Mockito it doesn't get it. And my External Libraries folder in the project doesn't have the Mockito jar. I even tried using mavenLocal() in the hope that it'll pick it up from my local .m2 directory, but it doesn't. I've been looking around and trying out all combinations for 2 hours now with absolutely no result. I don't want to add the jar to the project. I want to let gradle pull it from the central repo and compile it.

Thanks for any help in advance.

Answer 1

I found the answer here Apparently clicking on that refresh button refreshes the dependencies. Else right click on module -> Open Module settings -> Go to Dependencies tab and add your dependency either from your local m2 folder or provide the maven central URL for the dependency. I was too used to Eclipse doing stuff for me I guess. :)

Answer 2

Is this in Eclipse? If so, right-click on the project and go gradle > Update All (I think it is - I don't have open at moment and don't think about it any more). This will update the dependencies.