# Getting GradlePluginsRuntimeException **URL:** \ **Category:** Buildship\ **Created:** [July 26, 2019, 12:03pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/getting-gradlepluginsruntimeexception/32563 "2019-07-26T12:03:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![vai007](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/59ef9b/32.png) [@vai007](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/vai007)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2019, 12:03pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/getting-gradlepluginsruntimeexception/32563/1 "2019-07-26T12:03:44Z")
Hi, I’m getting following exception while creating a custom project. org.eclipse.buildship.core.internal.GradlePluginsRuntimeException: Can’t read root project location for project located at I created this file org.eclipse.buildship.core.prefs in the .settings folder of my project programmatically when pressing finish button in the new project creation wizard. I added these entries in this file connection.project.dir=\n eclipse.preferences.version=1 programatically. The file is successfully created with the above entries in the project but still I get the same exception org.eclipse.buildship.core.internal.GradlePluginsRuntimeException: Can’t read root project location for project located at in the console after creating my custom project. How to fix this exception? ---
**Author:** ![donat](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/gradle/user_avatar/discuss.gradle.org/donat/32/7798_2.png) [@donat](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/donat)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 9:42am UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/getting-gradlepluginsruntimeexception/32563/2 "2019-07-29T09:42:39Z")
I’m just guessing but I assume you want to implement a custom plugin that creates a Buildship project. You don’t need to interact with the preferences directly, there’s a public API you can use to import and synchronize projects. Look at the `org.eclipse.buildship.GradleWorkspace` as an entry point. You can generate a custom project structure and then import it with the mentioned API. Nonetheless, `connection.project.dir` should always point to the root project location. For the root project, the value should be an empty string.