Eclipse Gradle Plugin 'could not fetch model of type' - eclipse

Question

I am running Eclipse Luna on OS X with Gradle IDE 3.6.1 and anytime I try to select a project from the gradle tasks panel I get the following error:
org.eclipse.osgi.internal.framework.EquinoxConfiguration$1
Could not fetch model of type 'EclipseProject' using Gradle distribution
'https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-2.0-bin.zip'.
Has anyone else run into this error? I can get to the URL specified to download the file myself. So, network connectivity shouldn't be the problem.

Answer 1

The problem is for the java version configured by default on the IDE (Eclipse or Spring Tool Suite). The error is the following:
To fix it, you can set the Java version supported by the Gradle version in Configure Workspace Setting option.
Finally, you can refresh your project o continue with your creation. Later all will be perfect.

Answer 2

I had the same error in Eclipse Neon (version numbers were different, but otherwise same error). It looks like several different things can cause this error, but for me it was an incorrect property in [MyProject]/.settings/org.eclipse.buildship.core.prefs.
I had
connection.gradle.distribution=GRADLE_DISTRIBUTION(WRAPPER)
but it needed to be
connection.gradle.distribution=GRADLE_DISTRIBUTION(VERSION(2.13))
2.13 should be replaced with whatever version number output you get from gradle -version.
Coming back to add this:
It turns out, the actual root problem was an incompatibility between Gradle versions. My build.gradle file worked fine with an old version of Gradle, but uses things that were deprecated and removed in later versions.
Solution is to click Finish immediately in the wizard instead of Next, and then fix the issues in the build.gradle.

Answer 3

Bad reference in config.
Overwrite configuration:
Project -> Properties -> Gradle -> Override workspace settings ->
Specific Gradle version -> 4.x

Answer 4

You need to update Gradle
Goto:
Select 'Help > About Eclipse' (on Macs this is 'Eclipse > About Eclipse').
Click the 'Installation Details' button to display the installation details dialog. Look in the 'Installed Software' tab to see all the installed plugins.
Search for Gradle(Eclipse Plug-ins for Gradle) and Update.
It might take some time for first time after that.

Answer 5

Reason why it happens, cause new version of gradle is available to download. Once you download new version of gradle, your error will go away.
http://gradle.org/downloads

Answer 6

I had the same error message using Eclipse 4.5
In my case the build file was having a error and I had to modify this line
eclipse.classpath {
plusConfigurations += configurations.providedCompile
}
into this
eclipse.classpath {
plusConfigurations += [configurations.providedCompile]
}
After that everything worked again.

Answer 7

I met the same problem, somebody suggested that the gradle project may be build by a old version.
I solve the problem by the following step:
modify the configuration in Eclipse, perfrence ->gradle ->gradle distribution . point it to an older version.
delete the file in ./gradle/wrapper
reload the program

Answer 8

In my case, I forgot to put ending apostrophe ' for a value

Answer 9

I ran into a similar issue recently - even blowing away the project and repulling a fresh copy from git didn't fix it. I realized it wasn't specific to the project when I reproduced it outside of Eclipse:
$ ./gradlew tasks
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* What went wrong:
Expecting a stack map frame
Exception Details:
Location:
build_euvk0e0guiuwrf8fgn8svi2fy.run()Ljava/lang/Object; #16: aconst_null
Reason:
Error exists in the bytecode
Bytecode:
0x0000000: 2abb 0022 592a 2ab7 0025 ba00 3300 00b0
0x0000010: 01b0
What did fix it was removing the gradle cache:
$ rm -r ~/.gradle/caches
$ ./gradlew tasks
Somehow the version of gradle there had become corrupted (possibly related to Eclipse groovy plugin - I had this issue regularly until uninstalling it), and blowing it away forced it to get a fresh copy.
Hopefully this answer helps someone else avoid pulling out their hair.

Answer 10

I had a very similar issue and removing the following from my build.gradle fixed it. The same bit of config works in all other Gradle projects I have but for some reason not this one...
allprojects {
...
apply plugin: 'eclipse-wtp'
...
// remove this eclipse config to make the error go away
eclipse {
classpath { defaultOutputDir = file('build-eclipse') }
}
...
}

Answer 11

Open the CMD and enter there gradle --gui, change the settings of the gradle gui in the register Setup to Stack trace Output: Full Stack trace [-S] and the log level to info. Then change the current directory to the directory your build.gradle file is located and then go to the first register and let process the gui this files.
An error message should be displayed. There you find out what is wrong with your build.gradle file. In my case there was a folder missing and this causes this error.

Answer 12

This error can also be caused by a syntax error in the previous line of build.gradle. If so, the error has nothing to do with the Gradle or Eclipse version you are running. See this question

Answer 13

In my case i changed the Gradle version from 4.7.rc2 to4.6 and then it started to work.

Answer 14

I am on eclipse Oxygen (4.7.2), I was getting similar exception while importing the project and this worked for me:
While importing on windows Import Options
Click Configure Workspace Setting (which will take to preference window)
Select Local Installation directory (for me 'graddle wrapper' was selected)
apply, close and continue import
Below is the error I was getting
Loading Gradle project preview failed due to an error in the referenced Gradle build.
Could not fetch model of type 'GradleBuild' using Gradle distribution 'https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-3.5-bin.zip'.
_BuildScript_
org.gradle.tooling.BuildException: Could not fetch model of type 'GradleBuild' using Gradle distribution 'https://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-3.5-bin.zip'.
at org.gradle.tooling.internal.consumer.ExceptionTransformer.transform(ExceptionTransformer.java:51)
at org.gradle.tooling.internal.consumer.ExceptionTransformer.transform(ExceptionTransformer.java:29)
at org.gradle.tooling.internal.consumer.ResultHandlerAdapter.onFailure(ResultHandlerAdapter.java:41)
at org.gradle.tooling.internal.consumer.async.DefaultAsyncConsumerActionExecutor$1$1.run(DefaultAsyncConsumerActionExecutor.java:57)
at Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: _BuildScript_
at org.gradle.groovy.scripts.internal.DefaultScriptCompilationHandler$ScriptClassLoader.loadClass(DefaultScriptCompilationHandler.java:386)
... 77 more

Answer 15

None of the solutions worked for me and I'm having the same errors on STS 4 with eclipse Version: 2.2.600.v20190605-1800. My steps were:
Delete the project from my workspace
./gradlew cleanEclipseWtp cleanEclipse eclipseWtp eclipse
Import the project as an existing eclipse project (not an existing gradle import)
That worked!

Answer 16

Deleting .gradle folder from the project resolved my problem.

Answer 17

I got this error with Eclipse 2021-06, Java 1.8.0, gradle 4.4.
I tried deleting gradle wrapper binary folder, predefining gradle version, etc.
The thing that helped was just specifying gradle home directory and java home directory after selecting overriding workspace configuration.

Answer 18

Eclipse 4.4.1 broke Gradle Eclipse support with non-string values in system properties.This is fixed in the latest Gradle for the 3.6.2 release. Update your Gradle form this update-site: http://dist.springsource.com/snapshot/TOOLS/gradle/nightly