Grails 5.2.0 create-app, throws "Cannot resolve dependency org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-dependencies:2.7.0 no repositories are defined"

Question

I am starting a new grails application, I am using grails 5.2.0 (Latest as of today)

I generated a skeleton using :

~/grails-5.2.0/bin/grails create-app data_portal --profile=react

However, trying to run the application always gives me following error :

Configure project :server Cannot resolve reloading agent JAR: Failed to resolve imported Maven boms: Cannot resolve external dependency org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-dependencies:2.7.0 because no repositories are defined. Required by: project :server

FAILURE: Build completed with 2 failures.

1: Task failed with an exception.

• Where: Build file '.../server/build.gradle' line: 20

• What went wrong: A problem occurred evaluating project ':server'.

Receiver class grails.util.Environment does not define or inherit an implementation of the resolved method 'abstract java.lang.Object getProperty(java.lang.String)' of interface groovy.lang.GroovyObject.

• Try: Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights. ==============================================================================

2: Task failed with an exception.

• What went wrong: A problem occurred configuring project ':server'.

Failed to notify project evaluation listener. Receiver class grails.util.Environment does not define or inherit an implementation of the resolved method 'abstract java.lang.Object getProperty(java.lang.String)' of interface groovy.lang.GroovyObject.

• Try: Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights. ==============================================================================

• Get more help at https://help.gradle.org

Deprecated Gradle features were used in this build, making it incompatible with Gradle 7.0. Use '--warning-mode all' to show the individual deprecation warnings. See https://docs.gradle.org/6.9/userguide/command_line_interface.html#sec:command_line_warnings

CONFIGURE FAILED in 233ms

This is how my settings.gradle looks like

include 'client', 'server'

This is how my server/build.gradle looks like

buildscript {
    repositories {
        maven { url "https://repo.grails.org/grails/core" }
        maven { url "https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/" }
    }
    dependencies {
        classpath "org.grails:grails-gradle-plugin:$grailsGradlePluginVersion"
        classpath "com.github.node-gradle:gradle-node-plugin:1.3.0"
        classpath "org.grails.plugins:hibernate5:7.3.0"
        classpath "org.grails.plugins:views-gradle:2.3.2"
    }
}

version "0.1"
group "dp"

apply plugin:"eclipse"
apply plugin:"idea"
apply plugin:"war"
apply plugin:"org.grails.grails-web"
apply plugin:"com.github.node-gradle.node"
apply plugin:"org.grails.plugins.views-json"

repositories {
    maven { url "https://repo.grails.org/grails/core" }
}

dependencyManagement {
    imports {
        mavenBom('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-dependencies:2.7.0')
    }
    applyMavenExclusions false
}

configurations {
    developmentOnly
    runtimeClasspath {
        extendsFrom developmentOnly
    }
}

dependencies {
    developmentOnly("org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-devtools")
    compileOnly "io.micronaut:micronaut-inject-groovy"
    console "org.grails:grails-console"
    implementation "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-logging"
    implementation "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-validation"
    implementation "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-autoconfigure"
    implementation "org.grails:grails-core"
    implementation "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-actuator"
    implementation "org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-tomcat"
    implementation "org.grails:grails-plugin-url-mappings"
    implementation "org.grails:grails-plugin-rest"
    implementation "org.grails:grails-plugin-codecs"
    implementation "org.grails:grails-plugin-interceptors"
    implementation "org.grails:grails-plugin-services"
    implementation "org.grails:grails-plugin-datasource"
    implementation "org.grails:grails-plugin-databinding"
    implementation "org.grails:grails-web-boot"
    implementation "org.grails:grails-logging"
    implementation "org.grails.plugins:cache"
    implementation "org.grails.plugins:async"
    implementation "org.grails.plugins:hibernate5"
    implementation "org.hibernate:hibernate-core:5.6.9.Final"
    implementation "org.grails.plugins:views-json"
    implementation "org.grails.plugins:views-json-templates"
    profile "org.grails.profiles:react"
    runtimeOnly "org.glassfish.web:el-impl:2.2.1-b05"
    runtimeOnly "com.h2database:h2"
    runtimeOnly "org.apache.tomcat:tomcat-jdbc"
    runtimeOnly "javax.xml.bind:jaxb-api:2.3.1"
    testImplementation "io.micronaut:micronaut-inject-groovy"
    testImplementation "org.grails:grails-gorm-testing-support"
    testImplementation "org.mockito:mockito-core"
    testImplementation "io.micronaut:micronaut-http-client"
    testImplementation "org.grails:grails-web-testing-support"
    testImplementation "org.grails:views-json-testing-support"
    testImplementation "org.hibernate.validator:hibernate-validator:6.1.7.Final"
}

bootRun {
    ignoreExitValue true
    jvmArgs(
        '-Dspring.output.ansi.enabled=always', 
        '-noverify', 
        '-XX:TieredStopAtLevel=1',
        '-Xmx1024m')
    sourceResources sourceSets.main
    String springProfilesActive = 'spring.profiles.active'
    systemProperty springProfilesActive, System.getProperty(springProfilesActive)
}

tasks.withType(GroovyCompile) {
    configure(groovyOptions) {
        forkOptions.jvmArgs = ['-Xmx1024m']
    }
}

tasks.withType(Test) {
    useJUnitPlatform()
}

This is how my client/build.gradle looks like:

plugins {
    id "com.github.node-gradle.node" version "1.3.0"
}

node {
    version = '10.15.0' // https://nodejs.org/en/
    yarnVersion = '1.13.0' // https://yarnpkg.com/en/
    download = true
}

task bootRun(dependsOn: 'start') {
    group = 'application'
    description = 'Run the client app (for use with gradle bootRun -parallel'
}

task start(type: YarnTask, dependsOn: 'yarn') {
    group = 'application'
    description = 'Run the client app'
    args = ['run', 'start']
}

task build(type: YarnTask, dependsOn: 'yarn') {
    group = 'build'
    description = 'Build the client bundle'
    args = ['run', 'build']
}

task test(type: YarnTask, dependsOn: 'yarn') {
    group = 'verification'
    description = 'Run the client tests'
    args = ['run', 'test']
}

task eject(type: YarnTask, dependsOn: 'yarn') {
    group = 'other'
    description = 'Eject from the create-react-app scripts'
    args = ['run', 'eject']
}

Answer 1

This seem to be resolving after changing grailsGradlePluginVersion from grailsGradlePluginVersion=5.2 to grailsGradlePluginVersion=5.1.x. in gradle.properties

Answer 2

It looks from the deprecation warning like you were building using Gradle 6.9.

Grails 5 requires Gradle 7.

I encountered the same issue by accidentally using the gradle command instead of gradlew.

gradlew uses the version of Gradle from the project's Gradle Wrapper, but the gradle command will run whatever Gradle version is on your PATH -- in my case 6.9.2 -- so I got the same exception.

For others in the same situation:

• If your project has a wrapper, run ./gradlew build from the project's ROOT
• If your project has no wrapper, you can add one by running gradle wrapper --gradle-version 7.2 from the project's ROOT
• If you don't want to use a wrapper, install Gradle 7.x, set your GRADLE_HOME environment variable to the new install location (instead of your v6 or earlier install) and gradle build should work fine.