could not find method compile() for arguments - gradle

Question

I'm trying to execute some .sql scripts and then deploy web app using gradle tomcat plugin.
But when I make any attempt to run gradle I've got an error
My buildscript looks like this
buildscript {
//repository location
repositories {
mavenCentral()
jcenter()
}
//dependencies
//did not divide them into runtime&compile
dependencies {
//aspectJ dependencies
compile 'org.aspectj:aspectjlib:1.6.2'
compile 'org.aspectj:aspectjrt:1.7.4'
compile 'org.aspectj:aspectjweaver:1.7.4'
//servlet
compile 'javax.servlet:javax.servlet-api:3.0.1'
//jdbc postresql
compile 'org.postgresql:postgresql:9.2-1004-jdbc4'
//commons dbcp
compile 'commons-dbcp:commons-dbcp:1.2.2'
//spring & spring MVC dependencies
compile 'org.springframework:spring-core:' + spring_version
compile 'org.springframework:spring-web:' + spring_version
compile 'org.springframework:spring-webmvc:' + spring_version
compile 'org.springframework:spring-jdbc:' + spring_version
compile 'org.springframework:spring-aspects:' + spring_version
//spring security
compile 'org.springframework.security:spring-security-core:' + spring_security_version
compile 'org.springframework.security:spring-security-web:' + spring_security_version
compile 'org.springframework.security:spring-security-config:' + spring_security_version
//JSTL
compile 'jstl:jstl:1.2'
//slf4j-log4j
compile 'org.slf4j:slf4j-api:1.7.0'
compile 'org.slf4j:slf4j-log4j12:1.7.0'
compile 'log4j:log4j:1.2.17'
//mybatis
compile 'org.mybatis:mybatis:3.2.4'
compile 'org.mybatis:mybatis-spring:1.2.2'
//gson
compile 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.2.4'
//validation jsr303
compile 'javax.validation:validation-api:1.0.0.GA'
//junit4(test?)
compile 'junit:junit:4.11'
//spring test(test?)
compile 'org.springframework:spring-test:' + spring_version
//java mail
compile 'javax.mail:mail:1.4'
//tomcat plugin
def tomcatVersion = '7.0.53'
tomcat "org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-core:${tomcatVersion}",
"org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-logging-juli:${tomcatVersion}"
tomcat("org.apache.tomcat.embed:tomcat-embed-jasper:${tomcatVersion}") {
exclude group: 'org.eclipse.jdt.core.compiler', module: 'ecj'
}
//additional classpath
classpath 'org.gradle.api.plugins:gradle-tomcat-plugin:1.2.3'
classpath 'org.postgresql:postgresql:9.2-1004-jdbc4'
}
}
In build.gradle there are also several tasks and several apply plugin.
What's the problem? Full stack trace
My build.gradle is in a project folder.

Answer 1

The build script is mixing up buildscript dependencies (i.e.
dependencies of the build itself; typically this means Gradle plugins
with regular dependencies (i.e. dependencies of the code to be compiled/run).
2 needs to go into dependencies { ... }, not into buildscript { dependencies { ... } }.
Everything but the classpath dependencies are regular dependencies.

Answer 2

I get this error sometimes after Android Studio does some operation that tries to automatically add things to my build.gradle file, and then it messes up lines of code in the dependencies block that end with quotes or double-quotes. So I end up with a line like this:
def gpsVersion = '9.4.0'
compile "com.google.android.gms:play-services-wearable:${gpsVersion}" compile "com.google.android.gms:play-services-places:${gpsVersion}"
And as you can see it looks like the method compile has many arguments now. Fix the line spacing and resync to fix it.