Gradle build fails with MalformedJsonException - gradle

Question

After the migration from jcenter to maven-central repository, like
//from
repositories {
jcenter()
}
//to
repositories {
mavenCentral()
}
I got:
org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskExecutionException: Execution failed for task ':my-module:compileJava'.
...
Caused by: org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.ivyservice.DefaultLenientConfiguration$ArtifactResolveException: Could not resolve all files for configuration ':my-module:compileClasspath'.
...
project :my-module > org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-api:5.7.1 > org.junit:junit-bom:5.7.1
Caused by: org.gradle.internal.resolve.ModuleVersionResolveException: Could not resolve org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-params:5.7.1.
Caused by: org.gradle.api.internal.artifacts.ivyservice.ivyresolve.parser.MetaDataParseException: Could not parse module metadata https://everon.jfrog.io/everon/libs-release/org/junit/jupiter/junit-jupiter-params/5.7.1/junit-jupiter-params-5.7.1.module
How to fix it?

Answer 1

After the change, Gradle misused the metadata file and the solution would be to explicitly declare artifacts metadata sources:
repositories {
maven {
metadataSources {
mavenPom() //use maven pom
artifact() //look directly for the artifact
ignoreGradleMetadataRedirection() //it fixes the issue actually
}
}
}
See https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/dependency_management.html#sec:supported_metadata_sources for more