Strange Gradle IntelliJ error

Question

When I try to import a Gradle project in IntelliJ IDEA, I get the following error:

The IDE log starts out as follows:

[1314928]   WARN - nal.AbstractExternalSystemTask - 
 (of class java.lang.String) 
com.intellij.openapi.externalSystem.model.ExternalSystemException: 
 (of class java.lang.String)
    at org.jetbrains.plugins.gradle.service.project.AbstractProjectImportErrorHandler.createUserFriendlyError(AbstractProjectImportErrorHandler.java:106)
    at org.jetbrains.plugins.gradle.service.project.BaseProjectImportErrorHandler.getUserFriendlyError(BaseProjectImportErrorHandler.java:153)
    at org.jetbrains.plugins.gradle.service.project.BaseGradleProjectResolverExtension.getUserFriendlyError(BaseGradleProjectResolverExtension.java:358)

Versions:

• IntelliJ 13.1.4
• Gradle 1.12
• Ubuntu 14.04

Minimal example:

If I try to create a new project, I get:

Error:Download http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/hamcrest/hamcrest-core/1.3/hamcrest-core-1.3-sources.jar
 (of class java.lang.String)

Answer 1

Scenario

• Error message encountered on IntelliJ 13.1.4 on OS X 10.9.4, using Gradle 1.11.
• Project previously worked fine in IntelliJ 13.1.3, but now the Gradle import fails since IntelliJ 13.1.4.

Resolution

This is resolved by disabling the Scala plugin as per http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/SCL-7405

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Further update:

The Jetbrains issue commentary suggests that this issue with the Scala plugin is now resolved in the latest plugin version, which has now been released.