I am having the same issue, with my first project (following a Spark tutorial). Here is the output of “gradle tasks”
`:tasks
All tasks runnable from root project
Build tasks
assemble - Assembles the outputs of this project.
build - Assembles and tests this project.
buildDependents - Assembles and tests this project and all projects that depend
on it.
buildNeeded - Assembles and tests this project and all projects it depends on.
classes - Assembles main classes.
clean - Deletes the build directory.
jar - Assembles a jar archive containing the main classes.
testClasses - Assembles test classes.
Build Setup tasks
init - Initializes a new Gradle build. [incubating]
wrapper - Generates Gradle wrapper files. [incubating]
Documentation tasks
javadoc - Generates Javadoc API documentation for the main source code.
Help tasks
buildEnvironment - Displays all buildscript dependencies declared in root projec
t ‘redemption-api’.
components - Displays the components produced by root project ‘redemption-api’.
[incubating]
dependencies - Displays all dependencies declared in root project ‘redemption-ap
i’.
dependencyInsight - Displays the insight into a specific dependency in root proj
ect ‘redemption-api’.
help - Displays a help message.
model - Displays the configuration model of root project ‘redemption-api’. [incu
bating]
projects - Displays the sub-projects of root project ‘redemption-api’.
properties - Displays the properties of root project ‘redemption-api’.
tasks - Displays the tasks runnable from root project ‘redemption-api’.
IDE tasks
cleanEclipse - Cleans all Eclipse files.
eclipse - Generates all Eclipse files.
Upload tasks
uploadArchives - Uploads all artifacts belonging to configuration ‘:archives’
Verification tasks
check - Runs all checks.
test - Runs the unit tests.
Rules
Pattern: clean: Cleans the output files of a task.
Pattern: build: Assembles the artifacts of a configuration.
Pattern: upload: Assembles and uploads the artifacts belongin
g to a configuration.
To see all tasks and more detail, run gradle tasks --all
To see more detail about a task, run gradle help --task
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 6.517 secs`