Converting .classpath of eclipse to gradle

Question

I am trying to convert .classpath to a gradle project(The project is a dynamic web application, using Spring). I am getting the following error.

./gradlew tasks
Starting a Gradle Daemon, 1 stopped Daemon could not be reused, use --status for details

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Build file '/home/jsiddharth/workspace/feature_multiple_web_admins/mnoxwebadmin/BuseetaWebAdmin/build.gradle' line: 20

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating root project 'BuseetaWebAdmin'.
> Could not find method compile() for arguments [directory 'libs'] 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.

BUILD FAILED

Total time: 12.838 secs

My .classpath is

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<classpath>
    <classpathentry kind="src" path="src/main/java">
        <attributes>
            <attribute name="FROM_GRADLE_MODEL" value="true"/>
        </attributes>
    </classpathentry>
    <classpathentry kind="src" path="src/main/resources">
        <attributes>
            <attribute name="FROM_GRADLE_MODEL" value="true"/>
        </attributes>
    </classpathentry>
    <classpathentry kind="src" path="src/test/java">
        <attributes>
            <attribute name="FROM_GRADLE_MODEL" value="true"/>
        </attributes>
    </classpathentry>
    <classpathentry kind="src" path="src/test/resources">
        <attributes>
            <attribute name="FROM_GRADLE_MODEL" value="true"/>
        </attributes>
    </classpathentry>
    <classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jdt.launching.JRE_CONTAINER/org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.ui.launcher.StandardVMType/JavaSE-1.8/"/>
    <classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jst.j2ee.internal.web.container"/>
    <classpathentry kind="con" path="org.eclipse.buildship.core.gradleclasspathcontainer">
        <attributes>
            <attribute name="org.eclipse.jst.component.dependency" value="/WEB-INF/lib"/>
        </attributes>
    </classpathentry>
    <classpathentry exported="true" kind="con" path="org.eclipse.m2e.MAVEN2_CLASSPATH_CONTAINER">
        <attributes>
            <attribute name="maven.pomderived" value="true"/>
            <attribute name="org.eclipse.jst.component.dependency" value="/WEB-INF/lib"/>
        </attributes>
    </classpathentry>
    <classpathentry exported="true" kind="con" path="org.eclipse.jdt.junit.JUNIT_CONTAINER/4"/>
    <classpathentry exported="true" kind="var" path="localjar">
        <attributes>
            <attribute name="org.eclipse.jst.component.dependency" value="/WEB-INF/lib"/>
        </attributes>
    </classpathentry>


    .. bunch of other local jar's ..


    <classpathentry exported="true" kind="var" path="mCruiseOnLibs/json-simple-1.1.1.jar">
        <attributes>
            <attribute name="org.eclipse.jst.component.dependency" value="/WEB-INF/lib"/>
        </attributes>
    </classpathentry>
    <classpathentry exported="true" kind="var" path="mCruiseOnLibs/javax.json-1.0.2.jar">
        <attributes>
            <attribute name="org.eclipse.jst.component.dependency" value="/WEB-INF/lib"/>
        </attributes>
    </classpathentry>
    <classpathentry combineaccessrules="false" exported="true" kind="src" path="/localproject"/>

    .. bunch of local projects referred ..

    <classpathentry kind="output" path="bin"/>
</classpath>

Gradle build file

buildscript{

    //def dropboxfolder = "/home/jsiddharth/Dropbox/mylibs"

    repositories {
        jcenter()
        mavenCentral()
    }

    dependencies {
        // I copied all local jar's to the libs folder that contains the build.gradle file.
        compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: '*.jar')

        // compile files('${dropboxfolder}/local.jar'), this did not work, so commented

        compile(project(':localproject'))
        testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
    }
}

apply plugin:'java'
apply plugin : 'war'

Would you please check this answer: http://stackoverflow.com/a/34965185/2293534 — SkyWalker, Nov 01 '16 at 06:02

Henry · Answer 1 · 2016-11-01T06:43:56.397

The dependencies for the program to build must be specified outside of the buildscript block:

buildscript{

    //def dropboxfolder = "/home/jsiddharth/Dropbox/mylibs"

    repositories {
        jcenter()
        mavenCentral()
    }
}

apply plugin:'java'
apply plugin : 'war'

repositories {
    jcenter()
    mavenCentral()
}

dependencies {
    // I copied all local jar's to the libs folder that contains the build.gradle file.
    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: '*.jar')

    // compile files('${dropboxfolder}/local.jar'), this did not work, so commented

    compile(project(':localproject'))
    testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
}

Dependencies inside the buildscript block are used for the build script itself.

Btw. all that has nothing to do with the .classpath file used by eclipse.

respositorys is both inside and outside the builscript block — Siddharth, Nov 02 '16 at 18:12
I am now getting a different error `Execution failed for task ':tasks'. > Could not determine the dependencies of task ':war'` — Siddharth, Nov 02 '16 at 18:16

Converting .classpath of eclipse to gradle

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