version 4.8.8 with gradle 7.3 packageJsonFile issue

[AlanKang98]

Hi, I met this problem all the time

• What went wrong:
  A problem was found with the configuration of task ':npmInstall' (type 'NpmInstallTask').

  • In plugin 'com.github.gradle.node.NodePlugin' type 'com.github.gradle.node.npm.task.NpmInstallTask' property 'packageJsonFile' doesn't have a configured value.

    Reason: This property isn't marked as optional and no value has been configured.

    Possible solutions:

    1. Assign a value to 'packageJsonFile'.
    2. Mark property 'packageJsonFile' as optional.

    Please refer to https://docs.gradle.org/7.3/userguide/validation_problems.html#value_not_set for more details about this problem.

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It seem like some configuration delete the packageJsonFile when npm installing.

[b-gyula]

Actually the same error happens already with gradle version 6.x
Until it's fixed as a workaround to make it run with at least gradle version 6.x the underlying solidity and node plugins can be set specifically

plugins {
	id "com.github.node-gradle.node" version '3.1.1'
	id "org.web3j.solidity" version '0.3.2'
	...

[gtebrean]

@AlanKang98, @b-gyula what operating system do you have?

[nilevols]

I met the same problem, Gradle 7.4, Windows 10.

[RailOuy]

Still raise the error with the following configs and my gradle's version is 7.4.1
`id "org.web3j" version '4.8.7'

id "com.github.node-gradle.node" version '3.1.1'

id "org.web3j.solidity" version '0.3.2'`

[theonekeyg]

Is this issue being reviewed? Just caught it with gradle 7.5.1 on Ubuntu 22.04. Looks like some dependency has task that depends on npmInstall from com.gtihub.node-gradle.node, since web3j-gralde-plugin doesn't require this directly.