I upgraded my Eclipse IDE to version 2020-12 (4.18.0) and started to get Gradle build error after launching the IDE.
In Eclipse console it showed this error:
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* What went wrong:
Could not create an instance of type eclipsePlugin_5gol6cepvkmdl1guwpr4mu03j.
> Could not initialize class org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.InvokerHelper
* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.
In Eclipse Problems tab it showed:
Could not run build action using Gradle distribution 'https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-5.2.1-bin.zip'.
Could not create an instance of type eclipsePlugin_5gol6cepvkmdl1guwpr4mu03j.
Could not initialize class org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.InvokerHelper
Solution:
The solution of the problem is simply upgrading Gradle. Previous gradle version was 5.2.1, then I upgraded to version 6.7.1 and got it resolved.
For gradlew wrapper, file gradle-wrapper.properties needs to be modified to update distributionUrl. This file is located at Project Root | gradle | wrapper.
distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-6.7.1-bin.zip.
After the update, gradlew clean build command will download the new gradle version and the problem will be resolved.
