# Unable to resolve class HTTPBuilder

**URL:** <https://discuss.gradle.org/t/unable-to-resolve-class-httpbuilder/5246>\
**Category:** Old Forum Archive\
**Created:** [February 9, 2015, 10:32pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/unable-to-resolve-class-httpbuilder/5246 "2015-02-09T22:32:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![Aver\_Mimas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@Aver\_Mimas](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/Aver_Mimas)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2015, 10:32pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/unable-to-resolve-class-httpbuilder/5246/1 "2015-02-09T22:32:00Z")

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Hello,

I’m just getting started/learning Gradle. I’m trying to use HTTPBuilder in my script. Haven’t put any functionalities yet but I’m already running into some roadblocks.

Here’s what I have on my build.gradle script file:

```gradle
apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'groovy'
  buildscript {
 repositories {
  mavenCentral()
 }
    dependencies {
  classpath group: 'org.codehaus.groovy.modules.http-builder', name: 'http-builder', version: '0.7.1'
 }
}
  // initialze a new builder and give a default URL
def http = new HTTPBuilder('http://www.google.com/search')

```

I’m getting the error on last line saying "Unable to resolve class HTTPBuilder. What have I missed in the above script?

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**Author:** ![Mark\_Viera](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/gradle/user_avatar/discuss.gradle.org/mark_viera/32/1543_2.png) [@Mark\_Viera](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/Mark_Viera)\
**Post date:** [February 9, 2015, 11:05pm UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/unable-to-resolve-class-httpbuilder/5246/2 "2015-02-09T23:05:00Z")

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You’re missing an import statement.

import groovyx.net.http.HTTPBuilder

Any class that is not part of the Gradle API will need to be explicitly imported to be referenced in your build script.

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**Author:** ![Aver\_Mimas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@Aver\_Mimas](https://discuss.gradle.org/u/Aver_Mimas)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2015, 1:28am UTC](https://discuss.gradle.org/t/unable-to-resolve-class-httpbuilder/5246/3 "2015-02-10T01:28:00Z")

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Thank you Mark for your reply. That’s exactly what I was missing.