unable to find cpdCheck in subProject.

[mysticdrew]

I am in the process of updating our gradle from 3.5.1 to 7.5.1. I have run into this issue on our multimodule projects. Works fine on our single module projects.

Snipit from build.gradle

plugins {
    id "de.aaschmid.cpd" version "3.3"
}

apply plugin: 'idea'
apply plugin: 'java'
......
subprojects {
    apply plugin: 'java'
    check.dependsOn cpdCheck
}

project(":services") {
  apply from: "${rootDir}/gradle-shared/java-library.gradle"
}

java-library.gradle

apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'pmd'

cpdCheck {
  ignoreFailures = true
  ignoreLiterals = true
  source = sourceSets.main.allJava
}
check.dependsOn cpdCheck

error

Could not find method cpdCheck() for arguments [java_library_cafaflm8mss6w23bqztti9kxy$_run_closure1@35898229] on project ':services' of type org.gradle.api.Project.

[aaschmid]

Could you try something like rootProject.cpdCheck. The CPD plugin is only applied to the rootProject such that it looks like that Gradle does not find the cpdCheck task any more. I guess this is due to a change of the internal behavior of task resolution coming with version 7 - but I might to check the release notes 🙊.

Edit: Maybe you need to find the task using the rootProject.tasks TaskContainer, see https://docs.gradle.org/current/dsl/org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskContainer.html.

[aaschmid]

Closing due to no further information. Don't hesitate to reopen, though...