Gradle –找不到方法compileOnly

Git克隆了一个新项目，Gradle构建并遇到以下错误消息：

Terminal

$ gradle clean build

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Build file '/Users/mkyong/Documents/workspace/hc2/web/build.gradle' line: 25

* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating project ':web'.
> Could not find method compileOnly() for arguments [org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-tomcat] on project ':web'.

* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.

BUILD FAILED

使用Gradle 2.4

Terminal

gradle -version

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Gradle 2.4
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Build time