spring-boot gradle plugin can't be found

Question

I have a separate gradle script that is just adding spring-boot plugin. It looks like this:

buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenLocal()
        mavenCe         


        

Answer 1

As of now July first 2020, this is how I was able to configure it, and it worked! Hopefully, this can help anyone facing this problem. Note: Pay attention to the versions

buildscript {
        repositories {
            mavenCentral()
        }
        dependencies {
            classpath('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-gradle-plugin:2.2.8.RELEASE')
        }
    }
    
    plugins {
        id 'org.springframework.boot' version '2.2.8.RELEASE'
        id 'java'
    }
    
    group 'org.capfer'
    version '1.0-SNAPSHOT'
    
    sourceCompatibility = 1.8
    
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }
    
    dependencies {
        testCompile group: 'junit', name: 'junit', version: '4.12'
        compile('org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web:2.2.8.RELEASE')
    }