Unsupported Gradle DSL method found: 'add()'! using IntelliJ

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Hi, I’m using IntelliJ IDEA 13.1 Community Edition and I’m trying to add plugin to my build.gradle. Project is using gradle 2.0 wrapper.

buildscript {
      repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }
      dependencies {
        classpath "org.apache.ivy:ivy:2.3.0"
        classpath "com.ullink.gradle:gradle-repositories-plugin:1.2"
    }
}
  apply plugin: 'repositories'
apply plugin: 'java'
  sourceCompatibility = 1.8
version = '1.0'
  repositories {
    mavenCentral()
    sourceforge('ikvm','[module]/[revision]/[artifact]-[revision].[ext]')
}
  dependencies {
    testCompile group: 'junit', name: 'junit', version: '4.11'
}

Unfortunately, I get following error.

Error:(23, 0) Build script error, unsupported Gradle DSL method found: 'add()'!
  Possible causes could be:
    - you are using Gradle version where the method is absent (<a href="open_gradle_settings">Fix Gradle settings</a>)
  - you didn't apply Gradle plugin which provides the method (<a href="apply_gradle_plugin">Apply Gradle plugin</a>)
  - or there is a mistake in a build script (<a href="goto_source">Goto source</a>)

It seems like there is missing add() method, which is in ‘org.gradle.api.artifacts.dsl.RepositoryHandler’ package.

2

You might be using a plugin that’s not compatible with Gradle 2.0. Try switch to Gradle 1.12 to verify.

3

Yes, I switch gradle version to 1.1 and now it’s working. Is it possible somehow to force gradle 2.0 to work with older plugins?

4

No there isn’t. Gradle 2.0 removed several APIs that had been deprecated for a long time. Plugins that are still using these APIs will need to be updated.