Hi All, I'm attempting to upgrade from gradle 1.6 to gradle 1.7, and I think I've encountered a potential backwards compatibility issue.
I'm using the RPM plugin<https://github.com/TrigonicSolutions/gradle-rpm-plugin>as follows: buildscript { repositories { mavenCentral() } dependencies { classpath 'com.trigonic:gradle-rpm-plugin:1.3' } } apply plugin: 'war' apply plugin: 'rpm' task rpm(type: Rpm, dependsOn: war) { packageName = "blah-${project.name}" version = "1.0.1" release = revision arch = NOARCH os = LINUX //more configuration, etc } Under gradle 1.6, this works fine, but if I run the same script with gradle 1.7, the build fails. I've included the stack trace below. At first glance it looks like a method has been removed from a gradle api class. Cheers, Sean FAILURE: Build failed with an exception. * Where: Script '/Users/sreilly/Projects/XXX/build.gradle' line: XXX * What went wrong: A problem occurred evaluating script. > Could not create task of type 'Rpm'. * Try: Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. * Exception is: org.gradle.api.GradleScriptException: A problem occurred evaluating script. at org.gradle.groovy.scripts.internal.DefaultScriptRunnerFactory$ScriptRunnerImpl.run(DefaultScriptRunnerFactory.java:54) at org.gradle.configuration.DefaultScriptPluginFactory$ScriptPluginImpl.apply(DefaultScriptPluginFactory.java:131) at org.gradle.api.internal.plugins.DefaultObjectConfigurationAction.applyScript(DefaultObjectConfigurationAction.java:82) at org.gradle.api.internal.plugins.DefaultObjectConfigurationAction.access$000(DefaultObjectConfigurationAction.java:32) at org.gradle.api.internal.plugins.DefaultObjectConfigurationAction$1.run(DefaultObjectConfigurationAction.java:54) at org.gradle.api.internal.plugins.DefaultObjectConfigurationAction.execute(DefaultObjectConfigurationAction.java:114) at org.gradle.api.internal.project.AbstractPluginAware.apply(AbstractPluginAware.java:39) at org.gradle.api.internal.BeanDynamicObject$MetaClassAdapter.invokeMethod(BeanDynamicObject.java:248) at org.gradle.api.internal.BeanDynamicObject.invokeMethod(BeanDynamicObject.java:136) at org.gradle.api.internal.CompositeDynamicObject.invokeMethod(CompositeDynamicObject.java:147) at org.gradle.api.internal.project.DefaultProject_Decorated.invokeMethod(Unknown Source) at org.gradle.api.internal.project.ProjectScript.apply(ProjectScript.groovy:34) at org.gradle.api.Script$apply.callCurrent(Unknown Source) at build_3ouab9f94ai0o2vmdevnmfcojb.run(/Users/sreilly/Projects/TelefonicaInsightServices/smartsteps/rest/build.gradle:4) at org.gradle.groovy.scripts.internal.DefaultScriptRunnerFactory$ScriptRunnerImpl.run(DefaultScriptRunnerFactory.java:52) at org.gradle.configuration.DefaultScriptPluginFactory$ScriptPluginImpl.apply(DefaultScriptPluginFactory.java:131) at org.gradle.configuration.project.BuildScriptProcessor.execute(BuildScriptProcessor.java:38) at org.gradle.configuration.project.BuildScriptProcessor.execute(BuildScriptProcessor.java:25) at org.gradle.configuration.project.ConfigureActionsProjectEvaluator.evaluate(ConfigureActionsProjectEvaluator.java:34) at org.gradle.configuration.project.LifecycleProjectEvaluator.evaluate(LifecycleProjectEvaluator.java:55) at org.gradle.api.internal.project.AbstractProject.evaluate(AbstractProject.java:469) at org.gradle.api.internal.project.AbstractProject.evaluate(AbstractProject.java:77) at org.gradle.configuration.DefaultBuildConfigurer.configure(DefaultBuildConfigurer.java:31) at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher.doBuildStages(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:142) at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher.doBuild(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:113) at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher.run(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:81) at org.gradle.launcher.exec.InProcessBuildActionExecuter$DefaultBuildController.run(InProcessBuildActionExecuter.java:64) at org.gradle.launcher.cli.ExecuteBuildAction.run(ExecuteBuildAction.java:33) at org.gradle.launcher.cli.ExecuteBuildAction.run(ExecuteBuildAction.java:24) at org.gradle.launcher.exec.InProcessBuildActionExecuter.execute(InProcessBuildActionExecuter.java:35) at org.gradle.launcher.exec.InProcessBuildActionExecuter.execute(InProcessBuildActionExecuter.java:26) at org.gradle.launcher.cli.RunBuildAction.run(RunBuildAction.java:50) at org.gradle.api.internal.Actions$RunnableActionAdapter.execute(Actions.java:171) at org.gradle.launcher.cli.CommandLineActionFactory$ParseAndBuildAction.execute(CommandLineActionFactory.java:201) at org.gradle.launcher.cli.CommandLineActionFactory$ParseAndBuildAction.execute(CommandLineActionFactory.java:174) at org.gradle.launcher.cli.CommandLineActionFactory$WithLogging.execute(CommandLineActionFactory.java:170) at org.gradle.launcher.cli.CommandLineActionFactory$WithLogging.execute(CommandLineActionFactory.java:139) at org.gradle.launcher.cli.ExceptionReportingAction.execute(ExceptionReportingAction.java:33) at org.gradle.launcher.cli.ExceptionReportingAction.execute(ExceptionReportingAction.java:22) at org.gradle.launcher.Main.doAction(Main.java:48) at org.gradle.launcher.bootstrap.EntryPoint.run(EntryPoint.java:45) at org.gradle.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:39) at org.gradle.launcher.bootstrap.ProcessBootstrap.runNoExit(ProcessBootstrap.java:50) at org.gradle.launcher.bootstrap.ProcessBootstrap.run(ProcessBootstrap.java:32) at org.gradle.launcher.GradleMain.main(GradleMain.java:26) Caused by: org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskInstantiationException: Could not create task of type 'Rpm'. at org.gradle.api.internal.project.taskfactory.TaskFactory$1.call(TaskFactory.java:115) at org.gradle.api.internal.project.taskfactory.TaskFactory$1.call(TaskFactory.java:110) at org.gradle.api.internal.AbstractTask.injectIntoNewInstance(AbstractTask.java:145) at org.gradle.api.internal.project.taskfactory.TaskFactory.createTaskObject(TaskFactory.java:110) at org.gradle.api.internal.project.taskfactory.TaskFactory.createTask(TaskFactory.java:70) at org.gradle.api.internal.project.taskfactory.AnnotationProcessingTaskFactory.createTask(AnnotationProcessingTaskFactory.java:100) at org.gradle.api.internal.project.taskfactory.DependencyAutoWireTaskFactory.createTask(DependencyAutoWireTaskFactory.java:39) at org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.DefaultTaskContainer.create(DefaultTaskContainer.java:55) at org.gradle.api.internal.project.AbstractProject.task(AbstractProject.java:912) at org.gradle.api.internal.BeanDynamicObject$MetaClassAdapter.invokeMethod(BeanDynamicObject.java:248) at org.gradle.api.internal.BeanDynamicObject.invokeMethod(BeanDynamicObject.java:136) at org.gradle.api.internal.CompositeDynamicObject.invokeMethod(CompositeDynamicObject.java:147) at org.gradle.groovy.scripts.BasicScript.methodMissing(BasicScript.java:83) at rpm_support_4gv6ia50cgflj085708i87sqoi.run(/Users/sreilly/Projects/TelefonicaInsightServices/smartsteps/rpm-support.gradle:3) at org.gradle.groovy.scripts.internal.DefaultScriptRunnerFactory$ScriptRunnerImpl.run(DefaultScriptRunnerFactory.java:52) ... 44 more Caused by: java.lang.NoSuchMethodError: org.gradle.api.internal.file.copy.CopyActionImpl.<init>(Lorg/gradle/api/internal/file/FileResolver;Lorg/gradle/api/internal/file/copy/CopySpecVisitor;)V at com.trigonic.gradle.plugins.rpm.Rpm$RpmCopyAction.<init>(Rpm.groovy:154) at com.trigonic.gradle.plugins.rpm.Rpm.<init>(Rpm.groovy:62) at com.trigonic.gradle.plugins.rpm.Rpm_Decorated.<init>(Unknown Source) at org.gradle.api.internal.DependencyInjectingInstantiator.newInstance(DependencyInjectingInstantiator.java:62) at org.gradle.api.internal.ClassGeneratorBackedInstantiator.newInstance(ClassGeneratorBackedInstantiator.java:36) at org.gradle.api.internal.project.taskfactory.TaskFactory$1.call(TaskFactory.java:113) ... 58 more BUILD FAILED