Gradle build fails: Unable to find method 'org.gradle.api.tasks.testing.Test.getTestClassesDirs()Lorg/gradle/api/file/FileCollection;'

Question

When i am trying to compile a imported project from github, my gradle build always fails with the following exeption.

Unable to find method \'org.gradle.api.         


        

Answer 1

when you import a project from external resources some files will be generated as it contains information specific to your local configuration, and one of them is gradle-wrapper.properties, downgrade to a lower version and rebuild the project and the error should be gone

distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-5.1.1-all.zip

to

distributionUrl=https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-4.4-all.zip