How to change Gradle version in Eclipse using Buildship?

Question

I am running Eclipse Luna SR2 with Buildship 1.0.1.

The Gradle projects I create using the wizard are building with Gradle 2.5-rc-2, but I would like to use 2.6 which is the latest version.

How can I do it?

Setting the task had no effect:

apply plugin: 'java'

repositories {
    jcenter()
}

dependencies {
    testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
}

task wrapper(type: Wrapper) {
    gradleVersion = '2.6'
}

Solution: For some reason it is only working if I restart Eclipse after setting the version as Makoto suggested.

I just want to make certain: you've run the `wrapper` task, right? Have you executed `./gradlew --version` or the Windows equivalent? — Makoto, Aug 16 '15 at 21:16
Yes, wrapper task and no, not using command line I wish to do it from the IDE. But once I restarted Eclipse it worked. Not sure why =O . I will try at my PC at home to see if the same happens so I can report a bug. — Evandro Pomatti, Aug 16 '15 at 21:48
@Makoto Your asnwer is correct, but I had to restart Eclipse for it to work. — Evandro Pomatti, Aug 16 '15 at 22:39

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 16 '15 at 05:12

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If you want to use the wrapper, it's a simple matter of setting the gradleVersion property:

task wrapper(type: Wrapper) {
    gradleVersion = '2.6'
}

answered Aug 16 '15 at 05:12

Makoto

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if running from the command line you could also do: gradlew wrapper --gradle-version 2.6 – Kyle C Nov 17 '15 at 23:40
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This doesn't update the `build.gradle` file in my experience. – Makoto Nov 17 '15 at 23:44
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it won't update the build.gradle file, but it will update the gradle version in the gradle wrapper. In buildship I had to restart eclipse to get it to work regardless. – Kyle C Nov 18 '15 at 18:10

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 23 '16 at 12:39

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You can create a new Run Configuration of type Gradle Project running the task wrapper. Running this run configuration should update the wrapper version without the need to restart eclipse.

answered Jun 23 '16 at 12:39

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 08 '17 at 15:46

I had the same issue with different versions. The solution is to add the following task to your build file, then run gradle wrapper task in the project root folder:

task wrapper(type: Wrapper) {
  gradleVersion = '2.6'
}

The reason the wrong version of wrapper was used for the build is that there was no wrapper created for the version I wanted to use.

How to change Gradle version in Eclipse using Buildship?

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