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Unknown host ‘repo.maven.apache.org’. You may need to adjust the proxy settings in Gradle.

This error normally happen if your project is within company’s firewall. For error when you firstly loaded a Gradle project, the message look like:

Unknown host ‘repo.maven.apache.org’. You may need to adjust the proxy settings in Gradle. Enable Gradle ‘offline mode’ and sync project Learn about configuring HTTP proxies in Gradle

solution

Create and add a file gradle.properties to your home directory. E.g. add following file gradle.properties C:\Users\USER_NAME.gradle\gradle.properties Here are contents

systemProp.http.proxyHost=proxy.your.company.proxy.com
systemProp.http.proxyPort=8080
systemProp.http.proxyUser=your_user_name
systemProp.http.proxyPassword=password
systemProp.http.nonProxyHosts=*.nonproxyrepos.com|localhost
systemProp.https.proxyHost=proxy.your.company.proxy.com
systemProp.https.proxyPort=8080
systemProp.https.proxyUser=your_user_name
systemProp.https.proxyPassword=password
systemProp.https.nonProxyHosts=*.nonproxyrepos.com|localhost

Could not find method compile() for arguments

There error is Could not find method compile() for arguments [org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter] on object of type org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.dsl.dependencies.DefaultDependencyHandler.

• Try: Run with –info or –debug option to get more log output. Run with –scan to get full insights.

troubleshooting

Note that the compile, runtime, testCompile, and testRuntime configurations introduced by the Java plugin have been deprecated since Gradle 4.10 (Aug 27, 2018), and were finally removed in Gradle 7.0 (Apr 9, 2021).

Solution

You either downgrade your Gradle runtime to older version prior to v7.0. Or update build.gradle to

• Replace compile with implementation
• Replace runtime with runtimeOnly
• Replace testCompile with testImplementation
• Replace testRuntime with testRuntimeOnly

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