gradle not finding jar in mavenLocal repo

Question

I have a dependency on spring-beans;4.0.0.RELEASE, which I installed into my mavenLocal cache using

mvn install:install-file -Dfile=/Users/jric/Downloads/spring-beans-4.0.0.RELEASE.jar -DpomFile=/Users/jric/Downloads/spring-beans-4.0.0.RELEASE.pom,

but gradle-1.11 is failing to find the dependency, without much explanation. I did find this relevant-looking stack trace:

11:26:35.432 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.ivyservice.ivyresolve.RepositoryChainDependencyResolver] Discarding resolve failure.
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.repositories.resolver.MavenLocalResolver.isOrphanedPom(MavenLocalResolver.java:49)
        at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.repositories.resolver.MavenLocalResolver.findMetaDataArtifact(MavenLocalResolver.java:42)
        at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.repositories.resolver.ExternalResourceResolver.resolveStaticDependency(ExternalResourceResolver.java:165)
        at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.repositories.resolver.MavenResolver.getDependency(MavenResolver.java:83)
        at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.ivyservice.ivyresolve.LocalModuleVersionRepository.getLocalDependency(LocalModuleVersionRepository.java:44)
        at org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.ivyservice.ivyresolve.memcache.CachedRepository.getLocalDependency(CachedRepository.java:67)

Here's some more possibly-relevant data:

SCML-JRichardson:share jric$ ls /Users/jric/.m2/repository/org/springframework/spring-beans/
4.0.0.RELEASE           maven-metadata-local.xml
SCML-JRichardson:share jric$ cat /Users/jric/.m2/repository/org/springframework/spring-beans/maven-metadata-local.xml 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<metadata>
  <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-beans</artifactId>
  <versioning>
    <release>4.0.0.RELEASE</release>
    <versions>
      <version>4.0.0.RELEASE</version>
    </versions>
    <lastUpdated>20150307021047</lastUpdated>
  </versioning>
</metadata>
SCML-JRichardson:share jric$ ls /Users/jric/.m2/repository/org/springframework/spring-beans/4.0.0.RELEASE/
_maven.repositories     spring-beans-4.0.0.RELEASE.jar  spring-beans-4.0.0.RELEASE.pom

Answer 1

Gradle has a special statement to look in the local Maven repository: mavenLocal(). Make sure you call it in the global repositories section:

repositories {
    mavenLocal()  // <- Here
    mavenCentral()
}

If it doesn't work, make sure you didn't add it inadvertently in the buildscript section. That would add the dependency to your build environment instead of your code, which is typically not what you want.

buildscript {            // <- Probably not what you mean
    repositories {
        mavenLocal()
        mavenCentral()
    }
}