Spring with Gradle cannot find symbol @Controller and @ResponseBody

Question

Greetings, 
I've been following along with the Spring Basics course. How can I check dependencies again. I'm getting "cannot find symbol @Controller" and cannot find symbol for @ResponseBody. I'm at the section "Create a Controller to Handle HTTP Requests". Thank you.

Rob Bridges · Accepted Answer

Hey Miltion, I think I might see the problem. in your import statements be sure to include
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
That should help find the @Controller annotation.
Also, to import the response body try:
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.ResponseBody;
These two should work, if they do not let me know.

Milton Centeno · Answer

That worked Rob! Thank you.

Milton Centeno · Answer

Hi Rob,
 **********************************************here is my build file: **********************************************
group 'com.teamtreehouse'
version '1.0-SNAPSHOT'
buildscript{
    repositories{
        mavenCentral()
    }
    dependencies{
        classpath 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-gradle-plugin:1.2.6.RELEASE'
    }
}
apply plugin: 'java'
apply plugin: 'spring-boot'
sourceCompatibility = 1.5
repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
    compile 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-web:1.2.6.RELEASE'
}
***********************************here is my GifController.java **********************************************
package com.teamtreehouse.giflib.controller;
import org.springframework.web.bind.annotation.RequestMapping;
@Controller
public class GifController {
    @RequestMapping("/")
    @ResponseBody
    public String listGifs(){
        return "List of all the GIFs!";
    }
}
 **********************************************And here is my AppConfig.java file **********************************************
package com.teamtreehouse.giflib;
import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.EnableAutoConfiguration;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.ComponentScan;
@EnableAutoConfiguration
@ComponentScan
public class AppConfig {
    public static void main(String[] args){
        SpringApplication.run(AppConfig.class, args);
    }
}

Rob Bridges · Answer

Hey Milton, can you post your code and your gradle build file, I'll check and see if I can find what's missing.

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Spring with Gradle cannot find symbol @Controller and @ResponseBody

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