When I converted about 30 projects from Any to Gradle, including multiple
multi-project builds, I noticed a few peculiar things.
Firstly, NetBeans gets a background task hung up every now and then. The
only solution for this was to exit NetBeans then find the hung up task and
kill it. Once NetBeans restarted, the project scanning worked as expected
once more.
Secondly, I have noticed that the Gradle dependency cache can get stale and
not refresh from repositories. For this I would execute the Gradle build
task with the "--refresh-dependencies" (or something like that) option to
force Gradle to pull a fresh copy of the dependencies from the repositories.
Hope this helps! I still consider myself new-ish to Gradle. I do find
most of the support I need there in the NetBeans IDE for it, though.
However, my complaints about NetBeans relate to their lack of Jakarta EE 9
support, so far - but that's not anything to do with Gradle.
--Jason
On Mon, Aug 1, 2022, 22:59 Owen Thomas <owen.paul.tho...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello again. I am perplexed at the following problem.
>
> I have a multi-project build in a directory named "CliqueSpace". It's
> build.gradle file has the following:
>
> subprojects {
> apply plugin: 'java'
>
> repositories {
> mavenCentral()
> }
> }
>
> The settings.gradle file or the same directory has the following:
>
> rootProject.name = 'CliqueSpace'
>
> include ':Concept'
> include ':PeerDevice'
>
> There are other includes in the above file, but I don't think it is
> necessary to quote them here.
>
> In the Concept directory (CliqueSpace/Concept), build.gradle contains the
> following:
>
> description = 'Concept'
>
> In the PeerDevice directory (CliqueSpace/PeerDevice), build.gradle
> contains the following:
>
> description = 'PeerDevice'
>
> dependencies {
> compile project(':Concept')
> }
>
> At the moment, I only feel confident using gradle from the CLI. So, when I
> open a CLI window within the CliqueSpace directory, and run "gradle project
> PeerDevice", I get the following:
>
> owen@owen-Latitude-5511:~/Development/CliqueSpace/Code/trunk/CliqueSpace$
> gradle project PeerDevice
>
> FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
>
> * Where:
> Build file
> '/home/owen/Development/CliqueSpace/Code/trunk/CliqueSpace/PeerDevice/build.gradle'
> line: 4
>
> * What went wrong:
> A problem occurred evaluating project ':PeerDevice'.
> > Could not find method compile() for arguments [project ':Concept'] 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. Run with --scan to get full insights.
>
> * Get more help at https://help.gradle.org
>
> BUILD FAILED in 493ms
>
> In short, having followed the instructions from a few different sources
> now, I don't know what I'm doing wrong. It might be good for the reader to
> know that Concept/src/main/java has source code in it that compiles, but
> PeerDevice/src/main/java also has source code where almost every Java
> module has broken out in a rash of unresolved dependencies.
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Owen.
>
