[NETBEANS-5768] Gradle projects with settings.gradle but not build.gradle are not recognized

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 12.4
• Fix Version/s: 12.5
• Component/s: projects - Gradle
• Labels: pull-request-available

Environment

Gradle 7.0.2
NetBeans 12.4
OpenJDK 16

• Assignee: Jaroslav Tulach
• Reporter: Scott Palmer
• Created: 10/Jun/21 03:18
• Updated: 01/Jul/21 08:53
• Resolved: 01/Jul/21 08:53

Description

Running "gradle init" to initialize a new Java application project will make a project structure with a few sub projects (application and libraries), but no build.gradle file in the root. It just has the settings.gradle file that points to the sub-projects.
NetBeans project open dialog does not recognize the root folder as a project.
A simple work around is to make an empty build.gradle file in the root folder of the project, but NetBeans should be able to handle this valid project structure, particularly since it is the "default" structure coming from "gradle init"

Issue Links

• blocks: NETBEANS-5802 Gradle project wizard should use gradle init
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #3028