Eclipse Gradle Plugin 'could not fetch model of type'

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Michael picture Michael · Oct 9, 2014 · Viewed 85.4k times · Source

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

Josh Davis picture Josh Davis · Oct 4, 2016

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.

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