A problem occurred evaluating project ':buildSrc'. > Could not find method implementation() for arguments

[jdneo]

A problem occurred evaluating project ':buildSrc'.

Could not find method implementation() for arguments [org.ow2.asm:asm:9.7] on object of type org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.dsl.dependencies.DefaultDependencyHandler.

Steps to repro

1. Open the project https://github.com/MinecraftForge/MinecraftForge
2. The error is thrown here:

   build-server-for-gradle/model/src/main/java/com/microsoft/java/bs/gradle/model/actions/GetSourceSetsAction.java

   Line 125 in 395b977

   return controller.getModel(project, GradleSourceSets.class);

[Arthurm1]

Maybe I should remove getEditableBuilds and just use getIncludedBuilds here...

build-server-for-gradle/model/src/main/java/com/microsoft/java/bs/gradle/model/actions/GetSourceSetsAction.java

Line 66 in 395b977

moreBuilds = build.getEditableBuilds();

Gradle must do something funny with the buildSrc project as the buildSrc/build.gradle file is not valid on its own. It would need something like plugins { id 'groovy' } otherwise implementation() is invalid as it says in the error message.

[jdneo]

I got the similar answer from Gradle.

I'll check how it looks like in IDEA tomorrow

[jdneo]

I saw this: https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/66775ae4916b2ad4d6ce6b2a2db7456bd354e836/plugins/gradle/tooling-extension-impl/src/com/intellij/gradle/toolingExtension/impl/modelAction/GradleModelFetchAction.java#L217-L233

But this project is 8.7

[Arthurm1]

I'll have a look into it next week. If you need to fix it quickly then changing to getIncludedBuilds will exclude buildSrc.

[Arthurm1]

It's complex to follow but I think Intellij using this as their init.gradle.

So Groovy (and sometimes java) plugins are applied which means that the implementation/compile/api keywords are understood independently of the project.

[jdneo]

I've discussed this issue with Gradle as well, and find this: https://github.com/gradle/gradle/blob/master/platforms/extensibility/plugin-development/src/main/java/org/gradle/initialization/buildsrc/GroovyBuildSrcProjectConfigurationAction.java#L29

Maybe those plugins will be applied when running from command line but not the case when running from TAPI.

Need to debug to see if the assumption is correct.