Gradle FAILURE: Build failed with an exception - Task not found in root project

code2care@mac Desktop % gradle myTask

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Task 'myTask' not found in root project 'my-java-project'. Some candidates are: 'tasks'.

* Try:
Run gradle tasks to get a list of available tasks. Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. 
Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.

* Get more help at https://help.gradle.org

BUILD FAILED in 318ms

If you ran into the above error while trying to build your Java code using Gradle, the reason could be one of the following,

1. Make sure that the task that you are trying to run is available in your build.gradle file.


2. The build.gradle file maybe missing in your project folder, make sure it is available under the root folder, example: if my-java-project is my project folder, just inside it you must have your build.gradle file.


3. Did you spell the Gradle build file right: If you created your build script manually make sure its spelled right.

Solution: The above error was solved when I placed the below build.gradle file in my-java-project folder,

task helloWorld {

 doLast {
  println 'Hello World!'
 }

}

code2care@mac gradle-examples % gradle helloWorld

> Task :helloWorld
Hello World!

BUILD SUCCESSFUL in 606ms
1 actionable task: 1 executed