I have a Gradle project consisting of an Android module (the com.android.library
plugin is applied in the build.gradle
file) and a Java module (the java
plugin is applied in the build.gradle
file). Within the build.gradle
file of the Java module I was previously specifying the source and target compatibility as follows:
apply plugin: 'java' compileJava { sourceCompatibility = 1.7 targetCompatibility = 1.7 }
I’ve just updated the project’s “Android Plugin for Gradle” and “Gradle Wrapper” versions to the latest releases (2.2.3 and 3.2.1 respectively) and I’m now seeing warnings in the Java module as follows:
Access to 'sourceCompatibility' exceeds its access rights Access to 'targetCompatibility' exceeds its access rights
If I move the sourceCompatibility
and targetCompatibility
declarations to the root-level of the module’s build.gradle
file as follows…
apply plugin: 'java' sourceCompatibility = 1.7 targetCompatibility = 1.7
… then I get warning messages telling me that the assignments are not used.
What is the correct manner of specifying the source and target compatibility level of a Java module in the latest Gradle release?
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Answer
I think that the last one(declaration in the root) is the correct one and it has to work properly, though it causes warnings in IDE. It’s nowhere said, what is the prefered way to declare it and there is only one example in the official docs, where it’s used as:
sourceCompatibility = 1.6
in the root of the build.gradle
.