Accessing to missing property 'destinationDir' using the latest gradle plugin(0.13.0)

[KeithYokoma]

I'm using a robolectric and I configured my project with the latest gradle plugin(0.13.0).
I got a message below and build failed.
No problem is happened with the previous version of gradle plugin(0.12.2 and earlier), so probably something has changed on the new plugin.

Environment:
JDK: 1.8.0_05
Gradle plugin: 0.13.0
Gradle version: 2.1

$ ./gradlew assembleDebug --stacktrace

Caused by: groovy.lang.MissingPropertyException: No such property: destinationDir for class: org.gradle.api.DefaultTask_Decorated
    at org.gradle.api.internal.plugins.ExtraPropertiesDynamicObjectAdapter.setProperty(ExtraPropertiesDynamicObjectAdapter.java:46)
    at org.gradle.api.internal.CompositeDynamicObject.setProperty(CompositeDynamicObject.java:119)
    at org.gradle.api.DefaultTask_Decorated.setProperty(Unknown Source)
    at org.robolectric.gradle.RobolectricPlugin$_apply_closure1.doCall(RobolectricPlugin.groovy:128)
    at org.gradle.api.internal.ClosureBackedAction.execute(ClosureBackedAction.java:59)
    at org.gradle.listener.ActionBroadcast.execute(ActionBroadcast.java:39)
    at org.gradle.api.internal.DefaultDomainObjectCollection.doAdd(DefaultDomainObjectCollection.java:164)
    at org.gradle.api.internal.DefaultDomainObjectCollection.add(DefaultDomainObjectCollection.java:159)
    at com.android.build.gradle.AppExtension.addVariant(AppExtension.groovy:48)
    at com.android.build.gradle.internal.VariantManager.createVariantApiObjects(VariantManager.java:645)
    at com.android.build.gradle.internal.VariantManager.createApiObjects(VariantManager.java:614)
    at com.android.build.gradle.internal.VariantManager.createAndroidTasks(VariantManager.java:225)
    at com.android.build.gradle.internal.VariantManager$createAndroidTasks.call(Unknown Source)
    at com.android.build.gradle.BasePlugin.createAndroidTasks(BasePlugin.groovy:444)
    at com.android.build.gradle.BasePlugin$_apply_closure7.doCall(BasePlugin.groovy:355)
    at org.gradle.listener.ClosureBackedMethodInvocationDispatch.dispatch(ClosureBackedMethodInvocationDispatch.java:40)
    at org.gradle.listener.ClosureBackedMethodInvocationDispatch.dispatch(ClosureBackedMethodInvocationDispatch.java:25)
    at org.gradle.listener.BroadcastDispatch.dispatch(BroadcastDispatch.java:83)
    at org.gradle.listener.BroadcastDispatch.dispatch(BroadcastDispatch.java:31)
    at org.gradle.messaging.dispatch.ProxyDispatchAdapter$DispatchingInvocationHandler.invoke(ProxyDispatchAdapter.java:93)
    at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy12.afterEvaluate(Unknown Source)
    at org.gradle.configuration.project.LifecycleProjectEvaluator.notifyAfterEvaluate(LifecycleProjectEvaluator.java:67)
    ... 52 more

This error is occurred on the build configuration stage so that every task will fail with this problem.

Our dependencies are below.

buildscript {
  repositories {
    mavenCentral()
  }
  dependencies {
    classpath 'org.robolectric:robolectric-gradle-plugin:0.11.0'
  }
}

allprojects {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
        maven { url 'https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/' }
    }
}

apply plugin: 'robolectric'

dependencies {
  androidTestCompile('org.robolectric:robolectric:2.3') {
        exclude module: 'classworlds'
        exclude module: 'commons-logging'
        exclude module: 'httpclient'
        exclude module: 'maven-artifact'
        exclude module: 'maven-artifact-manager'
        exclude module: 'maven-error-diagnostics'
        exclude module: 'maven-model'
        exclude module: 'maven-plugin-registry'
        exclude module: 'maven-profile'
        exclude module: 'maven-project'
        exclude module: 'maven-settings'
        exclude module: 'nekohtml'
        exclude module: 'plexus-container-default'
        exclude module: 'plexus-interpolation'
        exclude module: 'plexus-utils'
        exclude module: 'wagon-file'
        exclude module: 'wagon-http-lightweight'
        exclude module: 'wagon-http-shared'
        exclude module: 'wagon-provider-api'
    }
}

[emilesvt]

That property was deprecated in one of the versions in 1.x and was removed in Gradle 2.0.

It is used (at least) in the RobolectricPlugin:

https://github.com/robolectric/robolectric-gradle-plugin/blob/master/src/main/groovy/org/robolectric/gradle/RobolectricPlugin.groovy#L35
https://github.com/robolectric/robolectric-gradle-plugin/blob/master/src/main/groovy/org/robolectric/gradle/RobolectricPlugin.groovy#L104
https://github.com/robolectric/robolectric-gradle-plugin/blob/master/src/main/groovy/org/robolectric/gradle/RobolectricPlugin.groovy#L116

[emilesvt]

It also appears there was some work done to remove those deprecated properties (that was merged into master) but a new release hasn't been made yet.

[erd]

I'll do some testing with the new Android gradle plugin this weekend. If everything looks good, I'll make a new release.

[emilesvt]

👍 AWESOME!

[KeithYokoma]

Nice! +1

[emilesvt]

Any update to this issue? Looking forward to using Robolectric with latest version of AS+gradle plugin...

[HoloRin]

I'm working on a project that would also be interested in testing out this combination due to some Intellij issues we are experiencing.

[ChristianKatzmann]

This issue was already fixed in commit 5aa0aff and released with the 0.12.0 release of this plugin. Just update your buildscript classpath to use classpath 'org.robolectric:robolectric-gradle-plugin:0.12.0' and this failure should disappear.

[KeithYokoma]

It works with classpath 'org.robolectric:robolectric-gradle-plugin:0.12.0'! Thank you so much 👍 :)