build.gradle里的dependencies标签页:

如果把dependencies改成dependencies2, gradle build的输出会遇到错误消息:

> A problem occurred evaluating root project 'quickstart'.Could not find method dependencies2() for arguments [build_a2307i03s3k13jdug3afl2lin$_run_closure3@21c69f73] on root project 'quickstart' of type org.gradle.api.Project.

找到这个org.gradle.api.Project类,位于目录orggradleapi下面:

打开Project.java, 查看关于dependencies的说明:

>

A project generally has a number of dependencies it needs in order to do its work. Also, a project generally

* produces a number of artifacts, which other projects can use. Those dependencies are grouped in configurations, and

* can be retrieved and uploaded from repositories. You use the {@link org.gradle.api.artifacts.ConfigurationContainer}

* returned by {@link #getConfigurations()} method to manage the configurations. The {@link

* org.gradle.api.artifacts.dsl.DependencyHandler} returned by {@link #getDependencies()} method to manage the

* dependencies. The {@link org.gradle.api.artifacts.dsl.ArtifactHandler} returned by {@link #getArtifacts()} method to

* manage the artifacts. The {@link org.gradle.api.artifacts.dsl.RepositoryHandler} returned by {@link

* #getRepositories()} method to manage the repositories.

Project是一个接口:

里面定义了dependencies这个方法:

这个方法的实现在哪里呢?

将dependencies标签页里的implementation标签随便换个名字:

gradle build出错:

> A problem occurred evaluating root project 'quickstart'.

> Could not find method implementation2() for arguments [{group=commons-collections, name=commons-collections, version=3.2.2}] on object of type org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.dsl.dependencies.DefaultDependencyHandler.

说明Implementation标签页的实现就位于org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.dsl.dependencies.DefaultDependencyHandler类里.

group改成group2:

build出错:

> A problem occurred evaluating root project 'quickstart'.

> Could not set unknown property 'group2' for DefaultExternalModuleDependency{group='null', name='commons-collections', version='3.2.2', configuration='default'} of type org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.dependencies.DefaultExternalModuleDependency.

所以build.gradle文件dependencies里的标签对应了DefaultExternalModuleDependency类的实例. 前者dependencies属性group, name和version对应了DefaultExternalModuleDependency类的成员:

再把dependenies里的group属性值稍作修改,改成一个并不存在的库文件名:

gradle build报错:

> Could not resolve all files for configuration ':compileClasspath'.

> Could not find commons-collections-:commons-collections:3.2.2.

Searched in the following locations:

- https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/commons-collections-/commons-collections/3.2.2/commons-collections-3.2.2.pom

If the artifact you are trying to retrieve can be found in the repository but without metadata in 'Maven POM' format, you need to adjust the 'metadataSources { ... }' of the repository declaration.

Required by:

project :

从错误信息的url能看出gradle build下载依赖的地址:https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/commons-collections-/commons-collections/3.2.2/commons-collections-3.2.2.pom

如果把url里多余的-去掉,在浏览器里即可正常访问:

https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/commons-collections/commons-collections/3.2.2/commons-collections-3.2.2.pom