[NETBEANS-6262] IDE shoulld print a warning if it chooses different Gradle distribution than configured

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: projects - Gradle
• Assignee: Svatopluk Dedic
• Reporter: Svatopluk Dedic
• Created: 03/Dec/21 17:08
• Updated: 03/Dec/21 17:29

Description

The gradle implementation may choose a different Gradle than configure in the project's gradle-wrapper.properties in case the distribution is not compatible with the runtime JDK that should run the gradle daemon. 

This may lead to unexpected situations, like version conflict between a gradle plugin and gradle core, such as this:

FINE [org.netbeans.modules.gradle.loaders.LegacyProjectLoader]: Failed to retrieve project information for: /space/src/vscode/scratch/micronaut-jdbc-repository
org.gradle.api.ProjectConfigurationException: A problem occurred configuring root project 'micronautguide'.
    at org.gradle.configuration.project.LifecycleProjectEvaluator.wrapException(LifecycleProjectEvaluator.java:75)
    at org.gradle.configuration.project.LifecycleProjectEvaluator.addConfigurationFailure(LifecycleProjectEvaluator.java:68)
    at org.gradle.configuration.project.LifecycleProjectEvaluator.access$400(LifecycleProjectEvaluator.java:51)
...
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: The value for task ':test' property 'testFrameworkProperty' is final and cannot be changed any further.
    at org.gradle.api.internal.provider.AbstractProperty$FinalizedValue.beforeMutate(AbstractProperty.java:489)
    at org.gradle.api.internal.provider.AbstractProperty.assertCanMutate(AbstractProperty.java:263)
    at org.gradle.api.internal.provider.AbstractProperty.setSupplier(AbstractProperty.java:212)
    at org.gradle.api.internal.provider.DefaultProperty.set(DefaultProperty.java:71)
    at org.gradle.api.tasks.testing.Test.useTestFramework(Test.java:979)
    at org.gradle.api.tasks.testing.Test.useJUnitPlatform(Test.java:1049)
    at org.gradle.api.tasks.testing.Test.useJUnitPlatform(Test.java:1032)
    at io.micronaut.gradle.MicronautLibraryPlugin.lambda$null$1(MicronautLibraryPlugin.java:103)
 

Apparently the plugin works OK with gradle 7.2 that the project uses, but fails with gradle 7.3 because of some incompatible change in gradle.

The IDE should at least print a warning message. I would even recommend to provide a setting that would fail the build, if such incompatibility is found.