[FIXED] Gradle 6.8 to 7 version update in a spring-boot application

Issue

d:\myProject>gradlew build --warning-mode all

> Task :compileJava UP-TO-DATE
Property 'options.compilerArgumentProviders.apt$0.name' is not annotated with an input or 
output annotation. This behaviour has been deprecated and is scheduled to be removed in Gradle 7.0. 
See https://docs.gradle.org/6.8/userguide/more_about_tasks.html#sec:up_to_date_checks 
for more details.
Property 'options.compilerArgumentProviders.apt$0.publicType' is not annotated with an 
input or output annotation. This behaviour has been deprecated and is scheduled to be removed in Gradle 7.0. 
See https://docs.gradle.org/6.8/userguide/more_about_tasks.html#sec:up_to_date_checks
for more details.

I have tried removing the generic plugin (id "net.ltgt.apt") and the IntelliJ (id "net.ltgt.apt-idea") plugin as suggested by @Bjørn Vester(https://www.linkedin.com/in/bjornvester/), but the code is giving same error.

I am trying to update gradle from 6.8 to 7.5 version. Can anyone help?

Solution

First things first, As @Bjørn Vester said you need to remove the the below lines from build.gradle

    id "net.ltgt.apt-eclipse" version "0.21"
    id "net.ltgt.apt-idea" version "0.21"
    id "net.ltgt.apt" version "0.21"

and add eclipse support by adding below line,

   id "com.diffplug.eclipse.apt" version "3.36.2"

and also update the version of id "com.diffplug.eclipse.apt" to latest.

As on the date of writing this answer the version was 3.36.2

Answered By - Manoj H U
Answer Checked By - Pedro (JavaFixing Volunteer)