Trying to compile with gradle bootrun and get cannot find spring-boot-gradle-plugin:1.4.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT

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I'm running my gradle project with "gradle bootrun" on a cmd prompt window.

The error I get is this:

What went wrong: A problem occurred configuring root project 'kyp4-backend'.
Could not resolve all artifacts for configuration ':classpath'. Could not find org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-gradle-plugin:1.4.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT. Searched in the following locations:
- https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/springframework/boot/spring-boot-gradle-plugin/1.4.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata.xml <-- PRODUCES 404 ERROR when you go to page
- https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/springframework/boot/spring-boot-gradle-plugin/1.4.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT/spring-boot-gradle-plugin-1.4.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT.pom <-- PRODUCES 404 ERROR when you go to page
- https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/org/springframework/boot/spring-boot-gradle-plugin/1.4.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT/spring-boot-gradle-plugin-1.4.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT.jar <-- PRODUCES 404 ERROR when you go to page Required by: project :

************ GRADLE *****************

So here's my build.gradle file:

buildscript {
    ext {
        springBootVersion = '1.5.3.RELEASE'
    }
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-gradle-plugin:1.4.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT") ***<-- THIS DOESN'T EXIST on repo.Spring.io. Only 1.2.0 = 5.x*** or ***<-- on repo.spring.io***
    }
}

apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'idea'
apply plugin: 'eclipse'
apply plugin: 'spring-boot' 
apply plugin: 'org.springframework.boot'
//apply plugin: 'war'

version = '0.0.1'
sourceCompatibility = 1.8

repositories {
    jcenter()
    mavenCentral()
    flatDir {
        dirs 'repository'
    }
    mavenCentral()
}
ext {
    springCloudVersion = 'Edgware.SR3'
}

dependencies {
    compile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-aop')
    compile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-security')
    compile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web')
    compile("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-devtools")
    compile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-actuator')

    compile group: 'joda-time', name: 'joda-time'

    compile group: 'com.myfolder', name: 'all_pfs', version: '7.1.9'
    compile group: 'com.myfolder', name: 'pfs-client', version: '7.1.9'
    compile group: 'com.myfolder.pfs.wic', name: 'pfs-wic', version: '1.1.0.RC3'
    compile group: 'com.picketlink.picketlink', name: 'picketlink-fed', version: '2.0.3-SNAPSHOT'

    compile group: 'commons-httpclient', name: 'commons-httpclient', version: '3.1'
    compile group: 'commons-lang', name: 'commons-lang', version: '2.6'
    compile group: 'org.apache.httpcomponents', name: 'httpclient'
    compile group: 'xstream', name: 'xstream', version: '1.2.2'
    compile group: 'javax.ejb', name: 'javax.ejb-api', version: '3.2'

    compile group: 'io.springfox', name: 'springfox-swagger2', version:'2.6.1'
    compile group: 'io.springfox', name: 'springfox-swagger-ui', version:'2.6.1'

compile group: 'org.apache.commons', name: 'commons-io', version: '1.3.2'

compile group: 'commons-beanutils', name: 'commons-beanutils', version: '1.8.3'

compile group: 'org.codehaus.jackson', name: 'jackson-mapper-asl', version: '1.9.13'

compile group: 'org.springframework', name: 'spring-messaging', version: '4.2.6.RELEASE'


compile group: 'org.springframework', name: 'spring-websocket', version: '4.3.11.RELEASE'

compile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-test')

compile group: 'org.springframework.boot', name: 'spring-boot-starter-data-jpa', version: '1.5.6.RELEASE'


testCompile group: 'com.microsoft.sqlserver', name: 'sqljdbc4', version: '4.0'

    compile name: "sqljdbc4-4.0"

    //Added to implement slf4j logger
    compile group: 'org.slf4j', name:'slf4j-api', version: '1.7.2'                                                                                                                                                                            
    //compile group: 'ch.qos.logback', name:'logback-classic', version: '1.0.9'                                                                                                                                                                 
    //compile group: 'ch.qos.logback', name:'logback-core', version: '1.0.9' 


// jsoup HTML parser library @ https://jsoup.org/
compile 'org.jsoup:jsoup:1.11.3'

compile group: 'com.datastax.cassandra',name: 'cassandra-driver-core',version:'3.2.0'
compile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-data-cassandra')

compile('org.projectlombok:lombok:1.18.2')

compile group: 'com.myfolder.service.fusion.audit.client', name: 'audit-client', version: '2.0.1.RELEASE'

compile group: 'org.apache.httpcomponents', name: 'httpasyncclient', version: '4.1.3'

}

dependencyManagement {
    imports {
        mavenBom "org.springframework.cloud:spring-cloud-dependencies:${springCloudVersion}"
    }
}

But this is all starting with org.springframework.boot/.context/web.client does not exist:

Here's a couple images to show:

I deleted the Netbeans CACHE and let Netbeans rebuild projects and indicies... still, no joy!

Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated.

Andy Wilkinson Andy Wilkinson · Accepted Answer · 2018-11-27T21:49:47

You have configured your buildscript to use Maven Central as its only repository:

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

You have also configured it to depend on 1.4.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT of Spring Boot's Gradle Plugin:

dependencies {
    classpath("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-gradle-plugin:1.4.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT")
}

Snapshots are not published to Maven Central, only releases are published there. Milestones and snapshots are published to https://repo.spring.io. Specifically, snapshots are available from https://repo.spring.io/snapshot and milestones are available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone. You can find 1.4.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT of Boot's Gradle plugin here.

If you want to use a snapshot version of Spring Boot, you should add https://repo.spring.io/snapshot and https://repo.spring.io/milestone to the configured repositories:

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
    maven { url 'https://repo.spring.io/snapshot' }
    maven { url 'https://repo.spring.io/milestone' }
}

The milestone repository is required as a Spring Boot snapshot may have milestone dependencies.

Alternatively, and particularly given that 1.4.0 is rather old now and no longer supported, you may want to upgrade to a more recent release. At the time of writing, 1.5.17.RELEASE is the latest in the 1.x line and 2.1.0.RELEASE is the latest in the 2.x line.

You could upgrade to 1.5.17.RELEASE like this:

buildscript {
    ext {
        springBootVersion = '1.5.17.RELEASE'
    }
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-gradle-plugin:$springBootVersion")
    }
}

Trying to compile with gradle bootrun and get cannot find spring-boot-gradle-plugin:1.4.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT

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