Cannot access 'kotlin.collections.Collection' which is a supertype of 'org.gradle.api.artifacts.dsl.RepositoryHandler'

Question

I got the above error after i add Plugins{ `kotlin`} to my build.gradle.kts file.

I have Google this problem and rebuild after delete all .gradle、.idea dir, but this problem still occurs. Additionally, i tried invalidate caches, but not work.

Any ideas for this problem?

What are you trying to achieve here? Adding kotlin to your project? — Rahul Rawat, Jun 26 '21 at 10:33
For me it happened when updating Gradle, Kotlin and Android Studio. Any luck ? — JonZarate, Jul 01 '21 at 10:05

score 19 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 02 '21 at 08:15

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You can try to delete Cache folder of Android Studio manually ~/Library/Caches/Google/AndroidStudio4.2

I had the same problem when upgrading Android Studio 4.2, Kotlin 1.5, and Gradle 7.0. This solution fixed my problem

answered Jul 02 '21 at 08:15

hientp

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Do you know the path for Windows ? I've tried `gradlew cleanBuildCache` with no luck so far – JonZarate Jul 02 '21 at 09:30
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I'm not familiar with Windows, but I think you can try `%LOCALAPPDATA%\Google\AndroidStudio4.2` – hientp Jul 02 '21 at 09:44
My machine OS is `Debian 10 Buster` and path for this dir is: `~/.cache/Google/AndroidStudio2020.3/` – Mohsents Nov 04 '21 at 14:12
This did help, much appreciated! – Aleksandr Belkin Nov 11 '21 at 12:27
So "Invalidate caches & restart" in AS which didn't help me actually doesn't delete all caches? OMG. – Miloš Černilovský Dec 30 '21 at 11:12
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This solution worked for me as well. Be sure to delete the `caches` folder (`~/.cache/Google/AndroidStudioX`), not the regular data folder (`~/Library/Application Support/Google/AndroidStudioX`) – rjam Jan 11 '22 at 15:10

Cannot access 'kotlin.collections.Collection' which is a supertype of 'org.gradle.api.artifacts.dsl.RepositoryHandler'

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