Upgrade to Gradle 9.4.1 and Micronaut 4

.sdkmanrc

@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@
 java=17.0.18-librca
 # Keep gradle version synced with gradle.properties (gradleToolingApiVersion), all gradle-wrapper.properties files,
 # and grails-forge/grails-forge-core/src/main/java/org/grails/forge/feature/build/gradle/templates/gradleWrapperProperties.rocker.raw
-gradle=8.14.4
+gradle=9.3.1
 

build-logic/docs-core/build.gradle

@@ -38,10 +38,9 @@ apply {
 dependencies {
     gradleConf gradleApi()
 
-    // grails-docs classes are used in Gradle builds,
-    // so we must compile with Groovy 3 until Gradle upgrades to Groovy 4.
-    compileOnly "org.codehaus.groovy:groovy:${GroovySystem.version}"
-    compileOnly "org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-ant:${GroovySystem.version}"
+    // grails-docs classes are used in Gradle builds, using Gradle's embedded Groovy version
+    compileOnly "org.apache.groovy:groovy:${GroovySystem.version}"
+    compileOnly "org.apache.groovy:groovy-ant:${GroovySystem.version}"
 
     api "org.apache.commons:commons-text:${gradleBomDependencyVersions['commons-text.version']}"
     api "org.apache.ant:ant:${gradleBomDependencyVersions['ant.version']}"
@@ -56,7 +55,7 @@ dependencies {
         transitive = false
     }
 
-    testImplementation "org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-test-junit5:${GroovySystem.version}"
+    testImplementation "org.apache.groovy:groovy-test-junit5:${GroovySystem.version}"
     testImplementation 'org.junit.jupiter:junit-jupiter-api:5.12.2'
     testImplementation 'org.junit.platform:junit-platform-runner:1.12.2'
     testRuntimeOnly 'org.junit.platform:junit-platform-launcher:1.12.2'

build-logic/docs-core/src/main/groovy/grails/doc/ant/DocPublisherTask.groovy

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
  */
 package grails.doc.ant
 
+import groovy.ant.AntBuilder
 import org.apache.tools.ant.BuildException
 import org.apache.tools.ant.Project
 import org.apache.tools.ant.Task

build-logic/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # and grails-forge/grails-forge-core/src/main/java/org/grails/forge/feature/build/gradle/templates/gradleWrapperProperties.rocker.raw
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.14.4-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-9.3.1-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME

build-logic/plugins/src/main/groovy/org/apache/grails/buildsrc/SbomPlugin.groovy

@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ class SbomPlugin implements Plugin<Project> {
             'pkg:maven/org.jline/jline@3.23.0?type=jar'                       : 'BSD-2-Clause', // maps incorrectly because of https://github.com/CycloneDX/cyclonedx-core-java/issues/205
             'pkg:maven/org.liquibase.ext/liquibase-hibernate5@4.27.0?type=jar': 'Apache-2.0', // maps incorrectly because of https://github.com/liquibase/liquibase/issues/2445 & the base pom does not define a license
             'pkg:maven/com.oracle.coherence.ce/coherence-bom@25.03.1?type=pom': 'UPL-1.0', // does not have map based on license id
+            'pkg:maven/com.oracle.coherence.ce/coherence-bom@25.03.2?type=pom': 'UPL-1.0', // does not have map based on license id
             'pkg:maven/com.oracle.coherence.ce/coherence-bom@22.06.2?type=pom': 'UPL-1.0', // does not have map based on license id
             'pkg:maven/opensymphony/sitemesh@2.6.0?type=jar'                  : 'OpenSymphony', // custom license approved by legal LEGAL-707
             'pkg:maven/org.jruby/jzlib@1.1.5?type=jar'                        : 'BSD-3-Clause'// https://web.archive.org/web/20240822213507/http://www.jcraft.com/jzlib/LICENSE.txt shows it's a 3 clause

dependencies.gradle

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ ext {
             'byte-buddy.version'            : '1.17.7',
             'commons-text.version'          : '1.13.1',
             'directory-watcher.version'     : '0.19.1',
-            'gradle-spock.version'          : '2.3-groovy-3.0',
+            'gradle-spock.version'          : '2.3-groovy-4.0',
             'grails-publish-plugin.version' : '0.0.4',
             'jansi.version'                 : '1.18',
             'javaparser-core.version'       : '3.27.0',

gradle.properties

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ expectitCoreVersion=0.9.0
 gparsVersion=1.2.1
 # Keep gradle version synced with .sdkmanrc, all gradle-wrapper.properties files,
 # and grails-forge/grails-forge-core/src/main/java/org/grails/forge/feature/build/gradle/templates/gradleWrapperProperties.rocker.raw
-gradleToolingApiVersion=8.14.4
+gradleToolingApiVersion=9.3.1
 hibernate5Version=5.6.15.Final
 javassistVersion=3.30.2-GA
 jnrPosixVersion=3.1.20

gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # and grails-forge/grails-forge-core/src/main/java/org/grails/forge/feature/build/gradle/templates/gradleWrapperProperties.rocker.raw
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.14.4-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-9.3.1-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME

grails-data-hibernate5/docs/build.gradle

@@ -33,8 +33,12 @@ ext {
 
 configurations {
     documentation {
+        canBeConsumed = false
+        canBeResolved = true
         attributes {
-            attribute(Bundling.BUNDLING_ATTRIBUTE, (Bundling) (objects.named(Bundling, 'external')))
+            attribute(Category.CATEGORY_ATTRIBUTE, objects.named(Category, Category.LIBRARY))
+            attribute(Bundling.BUNDLING_ATTRIBUTE, objects.named(Bundling, Bundling.EXTERNAL))
+            attribute(Usage.USAGE_ATTRIBUTE, objects.named(Usage, Usage.JAVA_RUNTIME))
         }
     }
 }

grails-data-mongodb/docs/build.gradle

@@ -33,8 +33,12 @@ ext {
 
 configurations {
     documentation {
+        canBeConsumed = false
+        canBeResolved = true
         attributes {
-            attribute(Bundling.BUNDLING_ATTRIBUTE, (Bundling) (objects.named(Bundling, 'external')))
+            attribute(Category.CATEGORY_ATTRIBUTE, objects.named(Category, Category.LIBRARY))
+            attribute(Bundling.BUNDLING_ATTRIBUTE, objects.named(Bundling, Bundling.EXTERNAL))
+            attribute(Usage.USAGE_ATTRIBUTE, objects.named(Usage, Usage.JAVA_RUNTIME))
         }
     }
 }

grails-data-neo4j/docs/build.gradle

@@ -38,17 +38,21 @@ apply plugin: 'org.asciidoctor.jvm.convert'
 
 configurations {
     documentation {
+        canBeConsumed = false
+        canBeResolved = true
         attributes {
-            attribute(Bundling.BUNDLING_ATTRIBUTE, (Bundling) (objects.named(Bundling, 'external')))
+            attribute(Category.CATEGORY_ATTRIBUTE, objects.named(Category, Category.LIBRARY))
+            attribute(Bundling.BUNDLING_ATTRIBUTE, objects.named(Bundling, Bundling.EXTERNAL))
+            attribute(Usage.USAGE_ATTRIBUTE, objects.named(Usage, Usage.JAVA_RUNTIME))
         }
     }
 }
 
 dependencies {
     documentation "org.fusesource.jansi:jansi:$jansiVersion"
-    documentation "org.codehaus.groovy:groovy"
-    documentation "org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-templates"
-    documentation "org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-dateutil"
+    documentation "org.apache.groovy:groovy"
+    documentation "org.apache.groovy:groovy-templates"
+    documentation "org.apache.groovy:groovy-dateutil"
     documentation "com.github.javaparser:javaparser-core:$javaParserCoreVersion"
     for (p in coreProjects) {
         documentation "org.apache.grails:grails-datastore-$p:$datastoreVersion"

grails-doc/build.gradle

@@ -318,8 +318,9 @@ tasks.register('dist', Zip).configure { Zip it ->
     it.from(outputDir)
 }
 
-artifacts {
-    archives dist
+// Make dist a direct dependency of assemble instead of using deprecated archives configuration
+tasks.named('assemble').configure {
+    dependsOn(tasks.named('dist'))
 }
 
 // the groovy plugin is applied to this project, but we do not build a jar file since

grails-forge/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/grails/forge/rocker/plugin/RockerPlugin.java

@@ -21,9 +21,9 @@
 
 import org.gradle.api.Plugin;
 import org.gradle.api.Project;
-import org.gradle.api.internal.plugins.DslObject;
+import org.gradle.api.plugins.ExtensionAware;
 import org.gradle.api.plugins.JavaLibraryPlugin;
-import org.gradle.api.plugins.JavaPluginConvention;
+import org.gradle.api.plugins.JavaPluginExtension;
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.SourceSet;
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.SourceSetContainer;
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.TaskProvider;
@@ -52,20 +52,20 @@ public void apply(Project project) {
                 project.getLayout().getBuildDirectory().dir("classes")
         );
 
-        // Create own source set extension
-        SourceSetContainer sourceSets = project.getConvention().getPlugin(
-                JavaPluginConvention.class).getSourceSets();
+        // Create own source set extension using the modern JavaPluginExtension API
+        SourceSetContainer sourceSets = project.getExtensions()
+                .getByType(JavaPluginExtension.class).getSourceSets();
         sourceSets.all(sourceSet -> processSourceSet(project, sourceSet, rockerConfig));
 
     }
 
     private static void processSourceSet(Project project, SourceSet sourceSet,
                                          RockerConfiguration rockerConfig) {
         // for each source set we will:
-        // 1) Add a new 'rocker' property to the source set
+        // 1) Add a new 'rocker' extension to the source set
         RockerSourceSetProperty rockerProperty
                 = new RockerSourceSetProperty(project);
-        new DslObject(sourceSet).getConvention().getPlugins().put(
+        ((ExtensionAware) sourceSet).getExtensions().add(
                 "rocker", rockerProperty);
 
         // 2) Create a rocker task for this sourceSet following the gradle

grails-forge/buildSrc/src/main/java/org/grails/forge/rocker/plugin/RockerSourceSetProperty.java

@@ -23,7 +23,10 @@
 import org.gradle.api.Action;
 import org.gradle.api.Project;
 import org.gradle.api.tasks.SourceSet;
-import org.gradle.util.ConfigureUtil;
+import org.gradle.util.internal.ClosureBackedAction;
+
+import java.io.File;
+import java.util.Set;
 
 /**
  * The rocker property added to the {@link SourceSet}.
@@ -45,7 +48,7 @@ public TemplateDirectorySet getRocker() {
     }
 
     public RockerSourceSetProperty rocker(Closure<?> configureClosure) {
-        ConfigureUtil.configure(configureClosure, getRocker());
+        new ClosureBackedAction<>(configureClosure).execute(getRocker());
         return this;
     }
 
@@ -54,4 +57,24 @@ public RockerSourceSetProperty rocker(
         configureAction.execute(getRocker());
         return this;
     }
+
+    // Delegate methods to TemplateDirectorySet for DSL compatibility
+    public RockerSourceSetProperty srcDir(Object srcDir) {
+        templateDirs.srcDir(srcDir);
+        return this;
+    }
+
+    public RockerSourceSetProperty srcDirs(Object... srcDirs) {
+        templateDirs.srcDirs(srcDirs);
+        return this;
+    }
+
+    public RockerSourceSetProperty setSrcDirs(Iterable<?> srcPaths) {
+        templateDirs.setSrcDirs(srcPaths);
+        return this;
+    }
+
+    public Set<File> getSrcDirs() {
+        return templateDirs.getSrcDirs();
+    }
 }

grails-forge/gradle.properties

@@ -23,27 +23,28 @@
 title=Grails Application Forge
 projectDesc=Generates Grails applications
 
-# for forge build process which is a micronaut 3.x.x app with picocli
+# for forge build process which is a micronaut 4.x.x app with picocli
 grailsPublishGradleVersion=0.0.2
 antVersion=1.10.15
 antlr4Version=4.8-1!!
 asciidoctorGradleJvmVersion=4.0.4
 cglibVersion=3.3.0
+byteBuddyVersion=1.15.11
 commonsCompressVersion=1.27.1
 gradleSdkvendorPluginVersion=3.0.0
-groovyVersion=3.0.25
+groovyVersion=4.0.30
 jacksonDatabindVersion=2.18.3
-jakartaInjectVersion=1.0.5
+jakartaInjectVersion=2.0.1
 # match the jansi version in grails-bom
 jansiVersion=1.18
 javaDiffUtils=4.15
 jgitVersion=6.10.0.202406032230-r
 logbackClassicVersion=1.5.17
-micronautApplicationPluginVersion=3.7.10
-micronautBuildVersion=1.1.5
+micronautApplicationPluginVersion=4.5.3
+micronautBuildVersion=2.2.1
 micronautDocsVersion=2.0.0
 micronautGradlePlugins=5.4.10
-micronautVersion=3.10.4
+micronautVersion=4.10.7
 nexusPublishVersion=1.3.0
 nohttpGradleVersion=0.0.11
 objenesisVersion=3.4
@@ -55,7 +56,7 @@ rockerVersion=2.2.1
 shadowVersion=8.3.6
 slf4jVersion=2.0.17
 snakeyamlVersion=2.4
-spockVersion=2.1-groovy-3.0
+spockVersion=2.3-groovy-4.0
 spotlessVersion=6.25.0
 testRetryVersion=1.6.2
 typesafeConfigVersion=1.4.3

grails-forge/gradle/doc-config.gradle

@@ -28,8 +28,8 @@ configurations.register('documentation') {
 }
 
 dependencies {
-    documentation "org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-templates:$groovyVersion"
-    documentation "org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-dateutil:$groovyVersion"
+    documentation "org.apache.groovy:groovy-templates:$groovyVersion"
+    documentation "org.apache.groovy:groovy-dateutil:$groovyVersion"
 }
 
 tasks.withType(Groovydoc).configureEach {

grails-forge/gradle/micronaut-openapi-config.gradle

@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ import groovy.transform.CompileStatic
 def openApiOutputFile = layout.buildDirectory.file('generated/openapi/openapi.properties')
 def openApiPropertiesTask = tasks.register('openApiProperties', WriteProperties)
 openApiPropertiesTask.configure { WriteProperties it ->
-    it.outputFile(openApiOutputFile.get().asFile)
+    it.destinationFile.set(openApiOutputFile)
     it.properties(
             'swagger-ui.enabled': true,
             'redoc.enabled': true,

grails-forge/gradle/test-config.gradle

@@ -17,6 +17,13 @@
  *  under the License.
  */
 
+// Add JUnit Platform launcher dependency required by Gradle 9 for running tests
+// Also add ByteBuddy for Spock mocking on Java 17+ (CGLIB doesn't support Java 17 class files)
+dependencies {
+    testRuntimeOnly 'org.junit.platform:junit-platform-launcher'
+    testImplementation "net.bytebuddy:byte-buddy:$byteBuddyVersion"
+}
+
 tasks.withType(Test).configureEach {
     onlyIf {
         ![
@@ -34,7 +41,8 @@ tasks.withType(Test).configureEach {
     }
 
     environment('GRAILS_REPO_URL', uri(rootProject.layout.projectDirectory.dir('../build/local-maven')))
-    jvmArgs('-Duser.country=US', '-Duser.language=en')
+    jvmArgs('-Duser.country=US', '-Duser.language=en',
+            '--add-opens', 'java.base/java.lang=ALL-UNNAMED')
     forkEvery = 100
     maxParallelForks = Runtime.runtime.availableProcessors().intdiv(2) ?: 1
     maxHeapSize = '2G'

grails-forge/gradle/wrapper/gradle-wrapper.properties

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 # and grails-forge/grails-forge-core/src/main/java/org/grails/forge/feature/build/gradle/templates/gradleWrapperProperties.rocker.raw
 distributionBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME
 distributionPath=wrapper/dists
-distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-8.14.4-bin.zip
+distributionUrl=https\://services.gradle.org/distributions/gradle-9.3.1-bin.zip
 networkTimeout=10000
 validateDistributionUrl=true
 zipStoreBase=GRADLE_USER_HOME

grails-forge/grails-cli/build.gradle

@@ -124,8 +124,10 @@ shadowJarTask.configure { ShadowJar it ->
             'about.html' // restatement of the Eclipse Distribution License - Version 1.0 for jakarta
     )
 }
-// publish shadow jar separately from the regular library
-artifacts           { archives shadowJarTask }
+// Make shadow jar a direct dependency of assemble instead of using deprecated archives configuration
+tasks.named('assemble').configure {
+    dependsOn(shadowJarTask)
+}
 
 TaskProvider<CreateStartScripts> cliStartScripts = tasks.register('createCliStartScripts', CreateStartScripts)
 cliStartScripts.configure { CreateStartScripts t ->

grails-forge/grails-forge-analytics-postgres/build.gradle

@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@
  */
 
 plugins {
-    id 'com.gradleup.shadow'
     id 'org.apache.grails.buildsrc.properties'
     id 'io.micronaut.application' version "$micronautApplicationPluginVersion"
 }
@@ -39,6 +38,7 @@ dependencies {
     implementation "org.postgresql:postgresql:$postgresqlVersion"
 
     runtimeOnly "ch.qos.logback:logback-classic:$logbackClassicVersion"
+    runtimeOnly 'io.micronaut:micronaut-jackson-databind'
 
     testCompileOnly "io.micronaut:micronaut-inject-groovy:$micronautVersion"
 

grails-forge/grails-forge-analytics-postgres/src/main/java/org/grails/forge/analytics/postgres/AnalyticsController.java

@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
 import io.micronaut.scheduling.annotation.ExecuteOn;
 import org.grails.forge.analytics.Generated;
 
-import javax.transaction.Transactional;
+import jakarta.transaction.Transactional;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.stream.Collectors;
 

grails-forge/grails-forge-analytics-postgres/src/main/java/org/grails/forge/analytics/postgres/Application.java

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 import org.grails.forge.options.JdkVersion;
 import org.grails.forge.options.TestFramework;
 
-import javax.validation.constraints.NotBlank;
+import jakarta.validation.constraints.NotBlank;
 import java.time.LocalDateTime;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.Objects;