IntelliJ IDEA and Gradle - Cannot be applied to '(groovy.lang.Closure)'

Question

I have a Gradle file which, whenever I load open it in IntelliJ IDEA 14.1.5, shows IDE errors for the entire file. Namely all the errors seem to be either:

java.

Answer 1

For anyone looking for a similar fix, this boiled down to the type of the module. My module was defined in my .iml file as

type="WEB_MODULE"

I created a new Gradle module and pasted in the same contents, deleted the original, renamed the new module to have the same name as the old one, and everything worked fine. When I diffed the results the only change was that the .iml file now said:

type="JAVA_MODULE"

So there's the answer, seemingly. Change your module from "web" to "java".